Multiple versions of perl6 using rakudobrew

Question

Is it possible to manage multiple versions of Perl 6 using rakudobrew

?

I tried:

$ rakudobrew build moar

but that just overwrote my previous version, which I was not going to do. My previous version was 2017.04.3

when I now type

$ perl6 --version
This is Rakudo version 2017.07-117-g5f68c7752 built on MoarVM version 2017.07-266-ged84a632
implementing Perl 6.c.

I'm looking for something similar to perlbrew install

and perlbrew switch

which I use to switch between another version of Perl 5.

+3

Håkon Hægland 02 Aug 17 at 14:53

1 answer

Christopher Bottoms · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-02T16:38:51+0000

moar

is the backend. To get a specific version of Rakduo, you must also specify it:

rakudobrew build moar 2017.07
rakudobrew build moar 2017.04.3

After that, you can choose which one to use:

rakudobrew switch moar-2017.04.3

If you're curious, run rakudobrew list-available

to get a list of all available Rakudo versions and backends.