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setuptools-rust

Setuptools plugin for Rust support
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setuptools-rust has 6.6M monthly downloads and 678 GitHub stars. Version 1.13.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2017.

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

It is built on top of semantic-version and setuptools. It is used by 40 tracked packages, including matrix-synapse, vllm-tpu and agentmake.

GitHub topics include rust and setuptools.

Downloads
Day
186.7K
Week
1.4M
Month
6.6M
Stars
678
Forks
108
Issues
6
Version
1.13.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
60
Adoption
60
Community
65
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,612,088
• 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
6,612,088
Stars
678
Stars per 1k downloads
0.10
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
197,644
Month daily avg
220,403
Momentum
-10.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
9 days ago
Total releases
66
Releases/year
7.1
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
62
Monthly downloads
6,612,088
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
65
 
Issue Burden
8.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
57.4%
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 124.6K
macOS 5.5K
Windows 5.0K

Python Versions

3.10
38.2% 49.9K
3.12
21.8% 28.4K
3.11
16.9% 22.0K
3.14
12.3% 16.1K
3.13
10.8% 14.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
102.1K
2. SG SG
5.9K
3. DE DE
5.7K
4. IN IN
3.3K
5. GB GB
2.9K
6. ES ES
2.3K
7. IE IE
2.0K
8. FR FR
1.8K
9. CN CN
1.6K
10. NL NL
1.5K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
March 9, 2017
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
1.13.0
Total Releases
66
Contributors
62
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11
Wheels
py3
Keywords
distutils setuptools rust
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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