dnspy/dnspy vs dremin/retrobar
dremin/retrobar shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, retrobar shows healthier maintenance signals than dnspy. retrobar rates Healthy overall while dnspy rates Concerns. dnspy last saw a commit 5 years ago with 7+ active contributors, while retrobar last saw a commit 1 month ago with 19+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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dnspy/dnspy →
Stale and unlicensed — last commit 5y ago
no license — legally unclear; last commit was 5y ago…
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; last commit was 5y ago
- ⚠Stale — last commit 5y ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 91% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓7 active contributors
- ✓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
dremin/retrobar →
Healthy across the board
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.
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 1w ago
- ✓19 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 48% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| dnspy | retrobar | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 29,364 | 4,165 |
| Last commit | 5y ago | 1mo ago |
| License | — | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 185 | 461 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Concerns signals | Healthy signals |
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