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d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus vs homebrew/brew

homebrew/brew shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, brew shows healthier maintenance signals than homebrew-emacs-plus. brew rates Healthy overall while homebrew-emacs-plus rates Mixed. homebrew-emacs-plus last saw a commit 4 months ago with 4+ active contributors, while brew was committed to 1 week ago with 12+ active contributors. homebrew-emacs-plus is MIT-licensed while brew is BSD-2-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

MixedDependency

dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 86% of recent commits
  • Last commit 3d ago
  • 4 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

homebrew/brew

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

MixedDependency

dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit today
  • 12 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 39% of recent commits)
  • BSD-2-Clause licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

homebrew-emacs-plusbrew
Stars2,86049,466
Last commit4mo ago9d ago
LicenseMITBSD-2-Clause
Open issues710
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage29%77%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeC
Cycles0
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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