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by edoloughlin 4954 days ago
> I lost hours trying to set up Maven to download one library and build my project.

You should check out Apache Buildr (http://buildr.apache.org/). It gives you the power of Maven repos with a Ruby "front end". And, yes, I know it's imperative and not declarative but I find that the build files tend to be small and understandable.