It helps you build packages quickly and easily (Packages like RPM and DEB formats).
fpm is a tool in the Build Automation category of a tech stack.
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It is a repository of software for the Python programming language. It helps you find and install software developed and shared by the Python community. Package authors use it to distribute their software.
A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.
It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.
Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.