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basecamp/kamal vs xcpretty/xcode-install

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, kamal and xcode-install both show healthy maintenance signals. kamal last saw a commit 1 month ago with 14+ active contributors, while xcode-install last saw a commit 2 years ago with 27+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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basecamp/kamal

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 80% of recent commits
  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 14 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

xcpretty/xcode-install

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • 27+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 14% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

kamalxcode-install
Stars14,1942,604
Last commit1mo ago2y ago
LicenseMITMIT
Open issues143138
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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