In whatever language you are programming you eventually end up in a situation where you are working with so many libraries that you need to manage them somehow. Up until a couple of days ago, I used Maven for this when dealing with Java. But Maven might be a bit more than what you normally want. It not only manages dependencies but also comes with its own project life-cycle management system. You can use Maven for compiling, testing, deploying, generating the documentation, publishing it on a website, and so on. But at least for me, all I normally want is a simple build system. If it has some nice extras, fine, but I don't really like to be forced in some kind of life-cycle management. So basically give me something like Make or Ant and then give me something that manages dependencies. This is more or less how I discovered Ivy.
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Ivy: A dependency manager for Java
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