I usually tweak it a bit, but that's minutes, not weeks.
There's often more stuff to add as a project grows, but again, minutes to hours for the common stuff. Setting up publishing to a Maven repository is more work than I'd like, but it's still not weeks.
So what are you doing that it takes so long? And how long would that take if done any other way?
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I usually tweak it a bit, but that's minutes, not weeks.
There's often more stuff to add as a project grows, but again, minutes to hours for the common stuff. Setting up publishing to a Maven repository is more work than I'd like, but it's still not weeks.
So what are you doing that it takes so long? And how long would that take if done any other way?