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delboy1978uk/barnacle
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Baracle be a simple Dependency Injection Container fer PHP and part o' th' Bone Framework

v2.5.3(1y ago)110.1k—0%20MITPHPPHP >8.2

Since May 8Pushed 1y ago1 watchersCompare

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barnacle
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[](#barnacle)

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Garr me hearties! Barnacle be a Pimple container, but with PSR-11 compatibility! Have fun

###  Health Score

47

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FairBetter than 94% of packages

Maintenance38

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity24

Limited adoption so far

Community30

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity87

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 50.5% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~152 days

Recently: every ~60 days

Total

31

Last Release

540d ago

Major Versions

v1.1.1 → v2.0.02014-02-10

1.1.x-dev → v2.1.02014-05-01

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.3.0

v2.5.0PHP >8.2

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

containerPSR-11dependency-injection

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