Stata 17 BE - Stata executable path not detected
ArnaudKunzi opened this issue · 5 comments
Dear all,
/gvegayon/parallel/parallel_setstatapath.mata needs to be updated to support Stata 17 basic edition executable name.
On the BE edition, the executable path is not auto-detected and need to be manually specified:
The basic edition is the replacement of the previous version's IC edition. Here are the system values.
Let me know if you need more info or any help with testing!
Typically we query c(flavor). Can you report what that returns? Eventually it'd be nice to know what the executable names are on Mac + Unix.
Run on stata 17BE:
This tripped me up at first...
Stata's user guide [U] 5.2 gives a clarification:
given that c(edition) is not defined in stata versions < 17, there will be probably a need to first check if c(version) >=17 , and then checking c(edition) or c(flavor) depending on the result. A tested alternative on Stata 15MP, 16IC and 17BE is:
di cond("`c(edition)'" != "", "`c(edition)'", "`c(flavor)'")
and 'correctly' returns IC in the two first cases or BE in the later case.
Eventually it'd be nice to know what the executable names are on Mac + Unix.
I would have loved to help more but I only have linux binaries up to v16 and no Mac. Can anyone else comment on this?
I just pushed an update to master. Could you reinstall from master and see if it auto-detects the version? Thanks
It works, thanks!
I asked a colleague running Stata17BE on MacOS to help. Here are the outputs:
executable path is:
/Applications/Stata/StataBE.app/Contents/MacOS/StataBE
Thanks for checking on this. I've updated the MacOS section accordingly.