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Flutter-powered AI app builder A head-to-head of two Utilities packages on pub.dev, by daily downloads, GitHub activity, and maintenance.
archive and pub_semver draw close to even on daily downloads (586,172 vs 580,291 per day). archive answers issues faster, a median first reply of 0 vs 4 days.
🇺🇸 loki3d.com · v4.5.1
Provides encoders and decoders for various archive and compression formats such as zip, tar, bzip2, gzip, zlib, xz and zstd.
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🇺🇸 tools.dart.dev · v2.2.1
Versions and version constraints implementing pub's versioning policy. This is very similar to vanilla semver, with a few corner cases.
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| Metric | archive | pub_semver |
|---|---|---|
| Downloads / day | 586,172 | 580,291 |
| Rank in Utilities | #3 | #4 |
| GitHub stars | 468 | 116 |
| Likes | 903 | 172 |
| Pub points | 160 / 160 | 160 / 160 |
| Issue response (median) | 0 days | 4 days |
| Contributors | 73 | 99 |
| Last commit | 7 days ago | 24 days ago |
| CI | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | BSD-3-Clause |
| First published | 12 years ago | 12 years ago |
| Platforms | android, ios, windows, linux, macos, web | android, ios, windows, linux, macos, web |
Highlighted cell wins each comparable metric. For rank, issue response, and last commit, lower is better.