Re: st: Re: Listing user-written ado files called by program

[Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com>]

Partho Sakar and Nick Cox discussed how to make sure that third
parties can run user-contributed Stata packages installed on one's
computer when the do-files are shared.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alternatively, teach your clients to use -ssc-.

I would second that. If you have a well-organized master do-file, it
would have a set-up stage at which all the referenced files should go.
At the very worst, you can always protect your non-official commands
in place with

capture listtab
if _rc == 199 ssc install listtab, replace
listtab <blah>

If you are super-serious about these compatibility issues, you could
run your master do-file with -adopath PLUS- being redirected to a
location where you'd collect all the third-party files for your
colleague/client, -captur-ing and -ssc install-ing them one by one, or
even on a virgin installation of Stata with no user-added files. You
could then either share the folder accumulated that way, or move all
the -ssc install- commands into the setup part of your do-file
sequence.

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