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Why Indigo? [message #686325]

Wed, 22 June 2011 03:20

Doug Abbott

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I'm really puzzled about where the name Indigo came from because, as far as I can tell, it's not a moon of Jupiter. I had expected to find something on the Eclipse website that would explain it, but so far I've come up empty handed.

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Wed, 22 June 2011 12:59

Eclipse Webmaster

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On 06/21/2011 11:20 PM, Doug Abbott wrote:
> I'm really puzzled about where the name Indigo came from because, as far
> as I can tell, it's not a moon of Jupiter. I had expected to find
> something on the Eclipse website that would explain it, but so far I've
> come up empty handed.
>

It was suggested by Jeff McAffer in March 2010, and it stuck... You can
read all the suggestions here:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=306864#c32

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