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scikit-build

scikit-build-core

A next generation Python CMake adaptor and Python API for plugins
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scikit-build-core has 11.1M monthly downloads and 480 GitHub stars. Version 1.0.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2022.

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

It is built on top of exceptiongroup, importlib-resources and packaging. It is used by 24 tracked packages, including scikit-build-core-conan, dlslime and imagedata.

GitHub topics include cmake.

Downloads
Day
296.7K
Week
2.2M
Month
11.1M
Stars
480
Forks
91
Issues
21
Version
1.0.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
57
Adoption
60
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
11,063,347
• 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
11,063,347
Stars
480
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
• 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
317,970
Month daily avg
368,778
Momentum
-13.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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-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
0 days ago
Total releases
68
Releases/year
18.5
• 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
58
Monthly downloads
11,063,347
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
72
 
Issue Burden
43.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
2.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
63.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 163.6K
Windows 10.7K
macOS 8.7K

Python Versions

3.12
35.4% 60.7K
3.10
34.4% 59.1K
3.11
13.5% 23.1K
3.13
8.5% 14.7K
3.14
8.2% 14.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
148.7K
2. IN IN
4.3K
3. SG SG
4.0K
4. DE DE
3.2K
5. ES ES
2.4K
6. CN CN
2.2K
7. GB GB
2.0K
8. ZA ZA
1.8K
9. JP JP
1.8K
10. BE BE
1.5K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
November 1, 2022
Last Release
9 hr ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
1.0.0
Total Releases
68
Contributors
58
Open PRs
15
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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