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homebrew/homebrew-cask vs oa414/objc-zen-book-cn

homebrew/homebrew-cask shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, homebrew-cask shows healthier maintenance signals than objc-zen-book-cn. homebrew-cask rates Healthy overall while objc-zen-book-cn rates Mixed. homebrew-cask last saw a commit 1 month ago with 4+ active contributors, while objc-zen-book-cn last saw a commit 8 years ago with 11+ active contributors. homebrew-cask is BSD-2-Clause-licensed while objc-zen-book-cn is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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homebrew/homebrew-cask

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.

  • 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

oa414/objc-zen-book-cn

Mixed

Stale — last commit 8y ago

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); last commit was 8y ago…

MixedFork & modify

no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 8y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 8y ago
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • 11 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 35% of recent commits)
  • Other licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms
  • Fork & modify MixedHealthy if: add a test suite
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

homebrew-caskobjc-zen-book-cn
Stars22,0083,397
Last commit1mo ago8y ago
LicenseBSD-2-ClauseOther
Open issues323
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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