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

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

At 01:27 AM 9/7/2011, Partho Sarkar wrote:
> This may be a common situation:
>
> Like most Stata users, I have accumulated a number of user-written
> programs (mostly downloaded from the SSC server, but also some other
> sources).  In a program I have written, I implicitly use some of these
> user-written programs via commands (e.g., rtfutil, listtab etc.).  I
> have to share this program with other colleagues/clients, who
> obviously will not have these downloaded programs.  So I would like to
> include a note with my program listing all the user-written programs
> which my program uses.  Since there are many of these, in several of
> my sub-routines spread over do files, it would be quite tedious to
> manually track them down one-by-one.  Any suggestions?

Much as I like user-written programs, this kind of stuff makes me a 
little nervous since there is no guarantee that the user-written 
program won't have important changes across time. Stata works very 
hard for backward compatibility via version control, but that doesn't 
mean the authors of user-written programs will do the same. Depending 
on what you are doing, you might consider incorporating snippets of 
code from other programs and include acknowledgements in the 
comments. Barring that, you might just get in the habit of including 
comments in your code that indicate what SSC routines are required.


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