docs/rakudo-star

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• 2017.07, latest (Dockerfile)

Quick reference

• Where to get help:
  the Docker Community Forums, the Docker Community Slack, or Stack Overflow

• Where to file issues:
  https://github.com/perl6/docker/issues

• Maintained by:
  the Perl 6 Community

• Published image artifact details:
  repo-info repo's repos/rakudo-star/ directory (history)
  (image metadata, transfer size, etc)

• Image updates:
  official-images PRs with label library/rakudo-star
  official-images repo's library/rakudo-star file (history)

• Source of this description:
  docs repo's rakudo-star/ directory (history)

• Supported Docker versions:
  the latest release (down to 1.6 on a best-effort basis)

What is Rakudo Star?

Rakudo Star is a Perl 6 distribution designed for use by early adopters of the language. It includes a virtual machine (the JVM or MoarVM), the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, and a suite of modules that users may find useful. This image includes the MoarVM backend for the compiler.

Project homepage: http://rakudo.org

GitHub repository: https://github.com/rakudo/star

The Dockerfile responsible: http://github.com/perl6/docker/tree/master/Dockerfile

Perl 6 Language Specification: http://design.perl6.org/

Perl 6 Language Documentation: http://doc.perl6.org/

How to use this image

Simply running a container with the image will launch a Perl 6 REPL:

$ docker run -it rakudo-star
> say 'Hello, Perl!'
Hello, Perl!

You can also provide perl6 command line switches to docker run:

$ docker run -it rakudo-star -e 'say "Hello!"'

Contributing/Getting Help

Many Perl 6 developers are present on #perl6 on Freenode.

Issues for Rakudo are tracked in RT: https://rt.perl.org/

License

View license information for the software contained in this image.