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Package Health Score

70 / 100

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Security issues found
popularity
Key ecosystem project
maintenance
Healthy
community
Sustainable

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Popularity

Key ecosystem project

GitHub Stars: 2.6K
Forks: 1.24K
Contributors: -

Direct Usage Popularity

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package setuptools, we found that it has been starred 2,602 times.

Security

Security issues found

Security and license risk for latest version

Release Date: Feb 26, 2025
Direct Vulnerabilities: 0
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Indirect Vulnerabilities: 0
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All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

License

MIT

Security Policy

Yes

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 600
Open PR: 46
Last Release: 6 days ago
Last Commit: 5 days ago

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

We found that setuptools 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

Sustainable

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 0
Funding: Yes

This project has seen only 10 or less contributors.

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Package

Python Versions Compatibility: >=3.9

Age: 19 years
Latest Release: 6 days ago
Dependencies: 0 Direct
Versions: 589
Maintainers: 3
Wheels: OS Independent

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astropy / pytest-doctestplus / command.py View on Github

pass
        else:
            sys.argv[idx] = '--remote-data=any'

        try:
            idx = sys.argv.index('-R')
        except ValueError:
            pass
        else:
            sys.argv[idx] = '-R=any'

        return super(FixRemoteDataOption, cls).__init__(name, bases, dct)


@six.add_metaclass(FixRemoteDataOption)
class AstropyTest(Command, object):
    description = 'Run the tests for this package'

    user_options = [
        ('package=', 'P',
         "The name of a specific package to test, e.g. 'io.fits' or 'utils'.  "
         "If nothing is specified, all default tests are run."),
        ('test-path=', 't',
         'Specify a test location by path.  If a relative path to a  .py file, '
         'it is relative to the built package, so e.g., a  leading "astropy/" '
         'is necessary.  If a relative  path to a .rst file, it is relative to '
         'the directory *below* the --docs-path directory, so a leading '
         '"docs/" is usually necessary.  May also be an absolute path.'),
        ('verbose-results', 'V',
         'Turn on verbose output from pytest.'),
        ('plugins=', 'p',
         'Plugins to enable when running pytest.'),

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What is setuptools?

Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for setuptools, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is setuptools popular?

The python package setuptools receives a total of 162,630,003 weekly downloads. As such, setuptools popularity was classified as a key ecosystem project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is setuptools well maintained?

We found that setuptools demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 0 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is setuptools safe to use?

Security issues were found while scanning the latest version of setuptools, and a total of 0 vulnerabilities were detected. It is highly advised to conduct a security review before using this package. View the full security scan results.

Last updated on 4 March-2025, at 06:22 (UTC).

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