From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: riivo.kolka@gmail.com
To: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Not an error but a difficult wording
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 23:21:13 +0100
Message-ID: <cd3c9ee208ccf0cc37b5e9ce3c24f79bc229a600.camel@cybertec.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <167463493588.2667301.13267758265445155872@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
References: <167463493588.2667301.13267758265445155872@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
On Wed, 2023-01-25 at 08:22 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/sourcerepo.html
> Description:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sourcerepo.html
>
> I was convinced that there was a missing word or something in
> "because the files that these tools are used to build are included in the
> tarball"
> I had to read this several times, until I saw that it was actually
> correct.
>
> Maybe this would be better? (I don't know the comma rules)
> "because the files(,?) that are generated/processed by these tools(,?) are
> already included in the tarball"
+1
Correct English would be:
These tools are not needed to build from a distribution tarball, because
the files generated by these tools are included in the tarball.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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