I was avoiding Rakudobrew for some now-forgotten technical reason. Probably couldn’t get a particular Perl 6 release to build. But I’m tired of one-off scripts or distribution packages that don’t quite match my expectations. What’s new in the Perl 6 language manager world?
For starters, names have changed. Perl 6 has been [Raku][raku] for a little bit, and Rakudobrew is now Rakubrew.
I don’t recall enough about Rakudobrew to make a better or worse comparison. Let’s just install it and see how it works.
Unfortunately curl doesn’t like the rakubrew site.
Firefox thinks the site’s fine, though. I’ll download install-on-perl.sh and run it locally. Oh nice, shell initialization instructions specific to the shell I’m running.
I do not yet have rakubrew on all my machines, but I do have nearly the same config everywhere. The logic I want looks a little more like this.
~/.zshenv
Time to reload my shell and see if it worked.
Apparently! Can I install a fresh version of Rakudo?
Yes indeed. Pretty quick, too. Looks like I no longer need to do a full build every time there’s a release. Nice.
Now the real test. Can I install perl6-readline via zef for the Raku REPL?
Aw man. drforr sure has cast a long shadow. We’ll be missing him for a while.
And with that, I think I’ll sign off on this post. Everything I needed installed cleanly, including p6doc and a few other modules for puttering with the site.