[CentOS-devel] CentOS 8 and codeready-developer repo

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 12:49 PM Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
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> On 9/25/19 12:11 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
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> >> On Sep 24, 2019, at 5:21 PM, Troy Dawson <tdawson at redhat.com> wrote:
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> >> Thanks to those who replied off-list.
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> >> The PowerTools repo has the packages from codeready-developer repo.
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> > Why? It seems a confusing and unnecessary renaming.
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> Because CodeReady linux Builder is a trademarked name, of course

I believe you. I wouldn't call it "of course". The names have distinct
meanings. I'm wincing a bit at the "codeready" name, from experience
during the dotcom era with "market ready!" projects that were "code
ready" after their first architecture meeting.