st: Re: auto SSC whatsnew

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

I would think this routine would be more useful if it displayed the 
information shown by SSC whatsnew and asked the user to reply 'y' or 
'n' to each proposed install. SSC contains Stata packages over a wide 
variety of techniques, and the person interested in haplotype analysis  
may not be interested in restricted cubic splines, or the 
Hodrick-Prescott filter, and vice versa. These things may each be very 
useful to a set of Stata users, but those sets may be disjoint. I would 
think that installing everything new (or revised) on SSC on the off 
chance that it might be something you want to use someday will just 
clutter your hard disk with hundreds of packages. Personally, I would 
rather type 'ssc install foo' when I realize that I need some 
user-written tool that I don't happen to have on this machine.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

On Nov 20, 2004, at 2:33 AM, Joseph wrote:


> I've got the following do-file for this in my Stata directory, and a 
> pointer
> to it tied to a function button in my profile.ado file.  I'm not sure 
> why I
> didn't make it an ado-file and place it in my personal ado directory.  
> In
> too much of a hurry, I guess.
>
> I believe that, even if a lot of people run it often, it wouldn't put 
> an
> undue load on the SSC server . . .
>
> Joseph Coveney
>
> - ---------updater.do---------
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