Stata 17 BE - Stata executable path not detected

[ArnaudKunzi]

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!

[bquistorff]

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.

[ArnaudKunzi]

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?

[bquistorff]

I just pushed an update to master. Could you reinstall from master and see if it auto-detects the version? Thanks

[ArnaudKunzi]

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

[bquistorff]

Thanks for checking on this. I've updated the MacOS section accordingly.