One of the characteristics of our community is that having mostly come from Informix-4gl backgrounds, they have practises that were determined by what Informix provided many years ago. In some cases, Informix did not dictate something and so Informix-4gl users developed their own way of doing things. These are of course all different.
One of those areas was how finished applications were bundled and deployed onto production servers. You would have developed your own procedures for figuring out what files to bundle up and ship to your customers, and then how to install it. No two Informix-4gl developers would have the same set of procedures.
Within the Genero stack we have endeavoured to provide a more complete ecosystem for you to build, and deploy applications. This include the concept of a Genero Archive.
Read more at
https://4js.com/ask-reuben/ig-216/
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