build VS flit

Compare build vs flit and see what are their differences.

build

A simple, correct Python build frontend (by pypa)

flit

Simplified packaging of Python modules (by pypa)
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build flit
7 6
648 2,085
4.9% 0.9%
9.2 6.4
10 days ago 16 days ago
Python Python
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

build

Posts with mentions or reviews of build. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.

flit

Posts with mentions or reviews of flit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing build and flit you can also consider the following projects:

Poetry - Python packaging and dependency management made easy

pip - The Python package installer

Pipenv - Python Development Workflow for Humans.

gh-action-pypi-publish - The blessed :octocat: GitHub Action, for publishing your :package: distribution files to PyPI: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/pypi-publish

installer - A low-level library for installing from a Python wheel distribution.

setuptools - Official project repository for the Setuptools build system

tomli - A lil' TOML parser

python-lib - Opinionated cookiecutter template for creating a new Python library

laravel-websockets-example - Quick example of a docker stack for laravel-websockets

virtualenv - Virtual Python Environment builder

pytomlpp - A python wrapper for tomlplusplus

vscode-python - Python extension for Visual Studio Code