Re: Comment on introduction pages

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Chris,

On 3 Jun 2010, at 21:01, Christina Gratorp wrote:
> I found a bug in the intro pages for automake:
> http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Introduction. The sentence
> "The developer expresses the recipe to build *his* package in a Makefile"
> must be wrong since I'm a woman and a user and have packages I want to build
> and those packages are mine, i.e *hers* would be correct in this case.
> 
> Suggestion: change the sentence to "The developer expresses the recipe to
> build *his/hers* package in a Makefile" or "The developer expresses the
> recipe to build *the* package in a Makefile"

But then it would be wrong for an even larger percentage of automake users,
almost none of which are hermaphrodites.  At least with male pronouns we're
exactly right 90% of the time or so.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)