PyRank
scikit-build

scikit-build

Improved build system generator for CPython C, C++, Cython and Fortran extensions
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
52.7K
Week
296.7K
Month
1.4M
Stars
533
Forks
125
Issues
166
Version
0.19.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
59
Adoption
70
Community
80
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
17 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,379,385
• 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
1,379,385
Stars
533
Stars per 1k downloads
0.39
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
42,382
Month daily avg
45,980
Momentum
-7.8%
((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
MIT License
• 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
80 days ago
Total releases
40
Releases/year
4.1
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
71
Monthly downloads
1,379,385
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
95
 
Issue Burden
311.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
197.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
56.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
62d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 21.6K
Windows 3.1K
macOS 1.2K

Python Versions

3.12
31.9% 7.6K
3.14
25.4% 6.0K
3.10
16.6% 3.9K
3.13
14.0% 3.3K
3.11
12.1% 2.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
18.2K
2. NL NL
1.4K
3. DE DE
860
4. SG SG
772
5. CN CN
655
6. IN IN
495
7. IE IE
433
8. GB GB
422
9. ID ID
372
10. JP JP
342

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
July 17, 2016
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.19.0
Total Releases
40
Contributors
71
Open PRs
21
Archived
No
Author
The scikit-build team
Python Versions
3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
scikit-build
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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