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v0.19.0 Growing

A pure rust library for building and parsing RPMs

Apache-2.0 OR MIT Edition 2024 MSRV 1.88.0

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 38d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 195 crates
  • !Heavy dependency tree (30 direct deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

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Downloads
705.6K
Dependents
195
Releases
22
Size
325KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

73.6K downloads in the last 30 days (2.5K/day), up 37% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

195 crates depend on rpm. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 8+ years old, rpm hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

30 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include tauri-bundler, dioxus-cli, cargo-generate-rpm, bootupd, rpmoci. When high-quality crates choose rpm, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 14/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 13/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 13/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
2K/day avg+74%
01K2K3K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.16.0
32%
v0.16.1
23%
v0.14.0
20%
v0.15.1
17%
v0.18.4
9%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["signature-pgp", "gzip-compression", "zstd-compression", "xz-compression"]

zstdmtsignature-pgp*signature-metaxz-compression*gzip-compression*test-with-podmanzstd-compression*bzip2-compression

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
30
direct dependencies
Dependents
195
crates depend on rpm

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