Package Health Score

100 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Key ecosystem project
maintenance
Healthy
community
Active

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Popularity

Key ecosystem project

GitHub Stars: 583
Forks: 231
Contributors: 110

Direct Usage Popularity

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package packaging, we found that it has been starred 583 times.

Security

No known security issues

Security and license risk for latest version

Release Date: Mar 10, 2024
Direct Vulnerabilities: 0
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Indirect Vulnerabilities: 0
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License Risk: 0
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All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

License

(Apache-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)

Security Policy

Yes

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 73
Open PR: 13
Last Release: 1 month ago
Last Commit: 8 days ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of packaging based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that packaging demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Active

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 110
Funding: No

A good and healthy external contribution signal for packaging project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

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Package

Python Versions Compatibility: >=3.7

Age: 10 years
Latest Release: 1 month ago
Dependencies: N/A
Versions: 44
Maintainers: 4
Wheels: OS Independent

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To help you get started, we've collected the most common ways that packaging is being used within popular public projects.

pypa / packaging / tests / test_version.py View on Github

def test_version_base_version(self, version, base_version):
        assert Version(version).base_version == base_version

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packaging

Reusable core utilities for various Python Packaging interoperability specifications.

This library provides utilities that implement the interoperability specifications which have clearly one correct behaviour (eg: 440) or benefit greatly from having a single shared implementation (eg: 425).

The packaging project includes the following: version handling, specifiers, markers, requirements, tags, utilities.

Documentation

The documentation provides information and the API for the following:

Version Handling
Specifiers
Markers
Requirements
Tags
Utilities

Installation

Use pip to install these utilities:

pip install packaging

The packaging library uses calendar-based versioning (YY.N).

Discussion

If you run into bugs, you can file them in our issue tracker.

You can also join #pypa on Freenode to ask questions or get involved.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the packaging project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms, and mailing lists is expected to follow the PSF Code of Conduct.

Contributing

The CONTRIBUTING.rst file outlines how to contribute to this project as well as how to report a potential security issue. The documentation for this project also covers information about project development and security.

Project History

Please review the CHANGELOG.rst file or the Changelog documentation for recent changes and project history.

FAQs

What is packaging?

Core utilities for Python packages. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for packaging, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is packaging popular?

The python package packaging receives a total of 152,608,608 weekly downloads. As such, packaging popularity was classified as a key ecosystem project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is packaging well maintained?

We found that packaging demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 110 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is packaging safe to use?

The python package packaging was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 16 April-2024, at 09:47 (UTC).

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Contributing

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