hackplayers/evil-winrm vs homebrew/homebrew-cask
homebrew/homebrew-cask shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, homebrew-cask shows healthier maintenance signals than evil-winrm. homebrew-cask rates Healthy overall while evil-winrm rates Mixed. evil-winrm last saw a commit 3 months ago with 8+ active contributors, while homebrew-cask last saw a commit 1 month ago with 4+ active contributors. evil-winrm is LGPL-3.0-licensed while homebrew-cask is BSD-2-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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hackplayers/evil-winrm →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (LGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected
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 58% of recent commits
- ⚠LGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 2mo ago
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓LGPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
homebrew/homebrew-cask →
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.
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 53% of recent commits
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓BSD-2-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| evil-winrm | homebrew-cask | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 5,372 | 22,008 |
| Last commit | 3mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | LGPL-3.0 | BSD-2-Clause |
| Open issues | 0 | 32 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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