Re: Not an error but a difficult wording - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Not an error but a difficult wording
Date
Msg-id cd3c9ee208ccf0cc37b5e9ce3c24f79bc229a600.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Not an error but a difficult wording  (PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: Not an error but a difficult wording  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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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