rakudo-pkg offers native packages of Rakudo Perl 6 that closely follow upstream development. Most of the time, the packages will be released on the same day as the Rakudo sources. At the moment, packages are provided for Alpine, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu. Feel free to contribute or request new packages.

rakudo-pkg aims to provide small self-contained (no dependencies, no files outside /opt/rakudo-pkg), pre-compiled native OS packages that can be used on user’s computers, servers and –very importantly– containers. Therefor, only the Rakudo compiler and the Zef package manager are provided. Third party modules can be easily installed if desired.

From a security point of view, we like to create the builds in the open: the packages are created, checksummed and automatically uploaded from the code in this repository by Travis CI to Github Releases and Bintray Repositories.

For those users, or rather System Administrators, that prefer to build their own Rakudo packages, rakudo-pkg can be used as a build framework. Because Docker containers are used when creating native Linux packages, any platform running Docker can be used as a host, including Linux, MacOS and Windows machines.

I mean, can you get it any more WRONG?! The juvenile logo and awful color scheme of the website. The Christmas release that isn't all release-like. Version 6.c? Why not 6.0? What's with the whole "language" and "compiler" distinctions no one cares about? Why is the first stable release of the compiler not optimized to the max? And why is it called "Perl" in the first place? They should rename it!!

Too little, too late. Is there a need for a new Perl? No, of course not. What is it good for? Nothing. What is its business case? None! What's Perl 6's "Killer App"? Non-existent. Why in the world would anyone use Perl 6?!