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popularity
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maintenance
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community
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GitHub Stars: 33.18K
Forks: 14.29K
Contributors: -

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Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package lit, we found that it has been starred 33,179 times.

Security

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Release Date: Jun 25, 2024
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License

Apache-2.0

Security Policy

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Maintenance

Inactive

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 25.65K
Open PR: 4.76K
Last Release: 1 year ago
Last Commit: 2 days ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of lit based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Inactive.

An important project maintenance signal to consider for lit is that it hasn't seen any new versions released to PyPI in the past 12 months, and could be considered as a discontinued project, or that which receives low attention from its maintainers.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Active

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 0
Funding: No

This project has seen only 10 or less contributors.

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Python Versions Compatibility: Unspecified

Age: 15 years
Latest Release: 1 year ago
Dependencies: N/A
Versions: 73
Maintainers: 0
Wheels: OS Independent

Readme

lit - A Software Testing Tool

About

lit is a portable tool for executing LLVM and Clang style test suites, summarizing their results, and providing indication of failures. lit is designed to be a lightweight testing tool with as simple a user interface as possible.

Features

> - Portable! > - Flexible test discovery. > - Parallel test execution. > - Support for multiple test formats and test suite designs.

Documentation

The official lit documentation is in the man page, available online at the LLVM Command Guide: .

Source

The lit source is available as part of LLVM, in the LLVM source repository:

Contributing to lit

Please browse the issues labeled tools:llvm-lit in LLVM's issue tracker for ideas on what to work on:

Before submitting patches, run the test suite to ensure nothing has regressed:

# From within your LLVM source directory.
utils/lit/lit.py \
    --path /path/to/your/llvm/build/bin \
    utils/lit/tests

Note that lit's tests depend on not and FileCheck, LLVM utilities. You will need to have built LLVM tools in order to run lit's test suite successfully.

You'll also want to confirm that lit continues to work when testing LLVM. Follow the instructions in to run the regression test suite:

> make check-llvm

And be sure to run the llvm-lit wrapper script as well:

> /path/to/your/llvm/build/bin/llvm-lit utils/lit/tests

Finally, make sure lit works when installed via setuptools:

> python utils/lit/setup.py install lit --path > /path/to/your/llvm/build/bin utils/lit/tests

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What is lit?

A Software Testing Tool. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for lit, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is lit popular?

The python package lit receives a total of 1,069,283 weekly downloads. As such, lit popularity was classified as a key ecosystem project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is lit well maintained?

We found indications that lit is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is lit safe to use?

The python package lit was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 26 June-2025, at 09:19 (UTC).

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