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by florinpatrascu 4884 days ago
Further more, to a comment I made earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5196565 and regarding the package managers.

As a Ruby developer, my first impulse was to use Rake but I started with Maven, trying to follow the bigger players, and I found myself struggling with managing various Maven dependencies and settings instead of focusing on getting the things done. Then I switched to Ant when I discovered the difference it makes when deploying to Heroku. Mu's compiled slug size deployed with Maven was 57Mb while the same core deployed with Ant today is 11.7Mb, give or take.

I'll commit the Maven configuration files soon, it is not my intention not too, but I will still search for a better solution. Any suggestions? Thank you for your feedback!