Re: Why are pkgsrc version numbers named after Dewey?

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

Am 20.08.2022 um 20:07 schrieb Alistair Crooks:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 06:46 Roland Illig wrote:
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
> But.... you didn't say what you wanted to call it, so that leaves me
> wondering if we're in the same position as 24 years ago :)

The names I have in mind are:

dewey_cmp -> pkgversion_cmp (in analogy to PKGVERSION)
dewey_match -> pkgname_match (in analogy to PKGNAME)

dewey_mktest may even become redundant, as the comparison operator could
be passed as a string literal instead:

    pkgname_match("package-1.0", "<=", "package-2.0nb17")

This looks easy enough to understand.

I'll experiment a bit and will present a more concrete suggestion after
gaining more experience.

Roland