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renegat59/glicerine
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Glicerine is a simple CLI library for PHP

0.1.0(7y ago)020mitPHPPHP >=7.0.0

Since Jun 10Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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Glicerine
=========

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\##PHP CLI Library

Glicerine is a PHP library for writing simple CLI applications.

###  Health Score

22

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LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity47

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2893d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b8613336b4ea1d65a5fa86d2bdc3677234a78062f635a2359b862b78143c1b43?d=identicon)[renegat59](/maintainers/renegat59)

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Top Contributors

[![renegat59](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2337858?v=4)](https://github.com/renegat59 "renegat59 (52 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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