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st: Re: your Stata exectuable is out of date
From
Ulrich Kohler <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: Re: your Stata exectuable is out of date
Date
Tue, 18 May 2010 15:17:27 +0200
<>
The problem of executable and ado-files getting out of sync happens
quite often. We have seen it on Statalist several times, and I have
encountered it over and over again in questions from colleagues. I was
even bitten by the problem in the middle of a course, when the
administrator of the computer pool run an ado update during the lecture.
In these cases I always thought that problem should be made impossible.
It might be sensible to automatically run -update exe- and -update swap-
before -update ado- whenever a new executable is available.
What are the advantages to let users update ados without updateing the
exe if updates for the exe exist?
Uli
Am Dienstag, den 18.05.2010, 14:01 +0200 schrieb Johannes Geyer:
> [email protected] schrieb am 18/05/2010 12:23:09:
>
> > <>
> > On May 18, 2010, at 2:33 AM, Johannes wrote:
> >
> > > update, query
> > > (contacting http://www.stata.com)
> > >
> > > Stata executable
> > > folder: R:\stata11\
> > > name of file: Stata.exe
> > > currently installed: 21 Oct 2009
> > > latest available: 20 Apr 2010
> > >
> > > Ado-file updates
> > > folder: R:\stata11\ado\updates\
> > > names of files: (various)
> > > currently installed: 20 Apr 2010
> > > latest available: 20 Apr 2010
> >
> > It is fairly disastrous to get the executable out of sync with the
> > ado-files. You should either update both or update neither, but
> > under no circumstances create this sort of asynchrony. It has often
> > been reported on Statalist as the source of serious problems with
> > Stata installations.
> >
>
> Thanks Kit for this comment. The IT guys simply pushed the "update"
> button and then Stata had no problems to update the ado-files
> but could not update the executable because it was still in use.
>
> Johannes
>
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