Re: Not an error but a difficult wording

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: riivo(dot)kolka(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Not an error but a difficult wording
Date: 2023-01-25 22:21:13
Message-ID: cd3c9ee208ccf0cc37b5e9ce3c24f79bc229a600.camel@cybertec.at
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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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