Optimal ado update strategy

[Eddy Simms]

As ado files can be found on SSC, Stata Journal and Github is there an optimal strategy to ensure that the latest version is obtained, or is it just a case of searching each source individually?

Eddy

[Jared Greathouse]

I think it's a matter of updating them individually. I could be quite wrong about this though, beyond simply doing

ado update, all

[daniel klein]

There is some potential for misunderstanding here.

ado update

will not find the most recent version among different sources/sites. The command checks whether there is a more recent version (in terms of release date string in the pkg-file) of the installed ado-files available from the source(s) from which the ado-files have been installed before (according to stata.trk).


I would say GitHub tends to be more up-to-date than SSC, and SSC tends to be more up-to-date than SJ. However, note that SSC, SJ, and, more recently GitHub, are among possible sources of ado-files. Many authors also host their community-contributed commands on their own sites.