buo/homebrew-cask-upgrade vs lewagon/setup
buo/homebrew-cask-upgrade shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, homebrew-cask-upgrade shows healthier maintenance signals than setup. homebrew-cask-upgrade rates Healthy overall while setup rates Mixed. homebrew-cask-upgrade last saw a commit 1 month ago with 10+ active contributors, while setup last saw a commit 2 months ago with 13+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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buo/homebrew-cask-upgrade →
Healthy across all four use cases
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 70% of recent commits
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓10 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
lewagon/setup →
Missing license — unclear to depend on
no license — legally unclear; no tests detected
no license — can't legally use code; no tests detected
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 3w ago
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 46% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| homebrew-cask-upgrade | setup | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 2,678 | 19,599 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 2mo ago |
| License | MIT | — |
| Open issues | 15 | 1 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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