[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Evolution (or the lack thereof) and future of the OpenEdge ABL

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Hello Mike, Jochen, Thank you for bringing up about package manager. > I think a package manager for ABL components would be a very valuable tool to have. An ABL NuGet, npm, … > Challenge is not so much to implement the package manager. One challenge is to define which kind of artifacts to deliver and how to > integrate that into existing projects. A PL is only able to contain (in a useful way) R-Code. But components might provide include file as > source code etc and other files (config files, JSON, XML, XSD, Images, …). +1 Yes, I think that the key is the artifacts to deliver and how to integrate into existing projects. I have worked with npm and RPM. I think that ABL components can be managed with either of these package managers. npm certainly being platform independent. Thanks.

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