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scikit-build

scikit-build

Improved build system generator for CPython C, C++, Cython and Fortran extensions
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Monthly downloads
1.1M
Weekly downloads
327.8K
GitHub stars
534

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
0.19.1
Requires Python
>=3.8
Licence
MIT License
Last Release
3 months ago
Author
The scikit-build team
First Release
July 17, 2016
Total Releases
42
Python Versions
3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
59
Adoption
100
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
9 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,064,418
• 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
1,064,418
Stars
534
Stars per 1k downloads
0.50
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
46,835
Month daily avg
35,481
Momentum
+32.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
115 days ago
Total releases
42
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
1,064,418
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
75
 
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
157.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
55.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
105d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 91.6K
Windows 3.9K
macOS 809

Python Versions

3.12
86.2% 81.2K
3.10
4.8% 4.5K
3.13
3.8% 3.6K
3.11
3.0% 2.8K
3.14
2.2% 2.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
79.0K
2. SG SG
10.9K
3. CN CN
1.6K
4. NL NL
859
5. DE DE
737
6. IE IE
363
7. JP JP
338
8. IN IN
278
9. CA CA
251
10. BE BE
223

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

5
16 optional dependencies

Used By

32
View all 32 dependents

Repository details

Forks
127
Issues
0
Last Commit
1 week ago
Contributors
71
Open PRs
0
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
scikit-build
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