Why are pkgsrc version numbers named after Dewey?

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

Hi,

Why are the version numbers of pkgsrc packages called Dewey numbers? The
concepts of a decimal classification scheme and a version number are
completely distinct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning

I'd like to completely eliminate this term from pkgsrc. Just because Ant
and FreeBSD didn't come up with a better term more than 20 years ago
doesn't mean that we should stick to this confusing mistake.

Roland