Last year, I created yet another Perl6 environment manager, p6env. Speaking of Perl6 environment managers, I think everyone imagine rakudobrew. Yes, it is awesome.

Here are pros and cons of p6env:

Pros p6env is one of the env family (rbenv, plenv, pyenv, etc.). So if you’re already familiar with them, you can use p6env even without any explanation. You can easily write plugins for p6env. See, for example, https://github.com/skaji/p6env-update. It can install rakudo-star distributions by default.

Cons It does not support Windows.



Since I created p6env, I have been using it and like it. I hope you try it.

How to install p6env

Here, we assume you use bash as your default shell. If you use different shells, please read README at github instead.

# 1. install p6env ❯ git clone https://github.com/skaji/p6env ~/.p6env # 2. add two lines to ~/.bash_profile ❯ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.p6env/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile ❯ echo 'eval "$(p6env init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile # 3. install perl6-build, which is the actual implementation of "install" command ❯ git clone https://github.com/skaji/perl6-build ~/.p6env/plugins/perl6-build # 4. restart your shell 😆

How to use p6env

Here is typical usage of p6env.

List available Perl6

❯ p6env install -l Available versions (latest 20 versions): rakudo-star-2018.10 rakudo-star-2018.06 rakudo-star-2018.04 rakudo-star-2018.01 rakudo-star-2017.10 rakudo-star-2017.07 rakudo-star-2017.04 rakudo-star-2017.01 rakudo-star-2016.11 rakudo-star-2016.10 2018.12 2018.11 2018.10 2018.09 2018.08 2018.06 2018.05 2018.04.1 2018.04 2018.03

Install rakudo-star or perl6 from rakudo git repository

# install rakudo-star 2018.10 ❯ p6env install rakudo-star-2018.10 # install perl6 from rakudo git repository with HEAD ❯ p6env install HEAD # Install perl6 from rakudo git repository with jvm backend ❯ p6env install --jvm HEAD

Use your Perl6

❯ p6env versions 2018.12-125-g4a152da50 2018.12-125-g4a152da50-jvm rakudo-star-2018.10 ❯ p6env global rakudo-star-2018.10 ❯ perl6 -v This is Rakudo Star version 2018.10 built on MoarVM version 2018.10 implementing Perl 6.c.

Install zef into current Perl6

❯ p6env install-zef ❯ zef --help Zef - Perl6 Module Management

That’s all. Happy hacking with p6env!