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mesonbuild

meson

The Meson Build System
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

meson has 20.3M monthly downloads and 7K GitHub stars. Version 1.11.1 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2016.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.

It is used by 63 tracked packages, including meson-python, fastled and clang-tool-chain.

Downloads
Day
513.7K
Week
3.7M
Month
20.3M
Stars
6.6K
Forks
1.9K
Issues
1.9K
Version
1.11.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
83
Adoption
60
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
20,347,084
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
20,347,084
Stars
6,567
Stars per 1k downloads
0.32
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
535,348
Month daily avg
678,236
Momentum
-21.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
76 days ago
Total releases
173
Releases/year
16.5
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
983
Monthly downloads
20,347,084
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
100
 
Issue Burden
295.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
84.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
51.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
74d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 321.5K
Windows 27.3K
macOS 13.3K

Python Versions

3.14
30.1% 101.7K
3.13
25.1% 84.9K
3.12
20.8% 70.1K
3.11
15.5% 52.3K
3.10
8.5% 28.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
252.8K
2. IE IE
15.8K
3. JP JP
12.9K
4. DE DE
11.0K
5. SG SG
10.8K
6. IN IN
8.2K
7. GB GB
4.8K
8. CN CN
4.5K
9. ID ID
3.2K
10. KR KR
3.1K

Package Information

License
Apache License, Version 2.0
First Release
January 16, 2016
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
1.11.1
Total Releases
173
Contributors
983
Open PRs
520
Archived
No
Author
Jussi Pakkanen
Python Versions
3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
meson mesonbuild build system cmake
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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