# Supported tags and respective `Dockerfile` links - [`2018.04`, `latest` (*Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/perl6/docker/blob/aff1beeb74853acb6d04c7335ef56c56f0270407/Dockerfile) # Quick reference - **Where to get help**: [the Docker Community Forums](https://forums.docker.com/), [the Docker Community Slack](https://blog.docker.com/2016/11/introducing-docker-community-directory-docker-community-slack/), or [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&q=docker) - **Where to file issues**: [https://github.com/perl6/docker/issues](https://github.com/perl6/docker/issues) - **Maintained by**: [the Perl 6 Community](https://github.com/perl6/docker) - **Supported architectures**: ([more info](https://github.com/docker-library/official-images#architectures-other-than-amd64)) [`amd64`](https://hub.docker.com/r/amd64/rakudo-star/) - **Published image artifact details**: [repo-info repo's `repos/rakudo-star/` directory](https://github.com/docker-library/repo-info/blob/master/repos/rakudo-star) ([history](https://github.com/docker-library/repo-info/commits/master/repos/rakudo-star)) (image metadata, transfer size, etc) - **Image updates**: [official-images PRs with label `library/rakudo-star`](https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pulls?q=label%3Alibrary%2Frakudo-star) [official-images repo's `library/rakudo-star` file](https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/blob/master/library/rakudo-star) ([history](https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/commits/master/library/rakudo-star)) - **Source of this description**: [docs repo's `rakudo-star/` directory](https://github.com/docker-library/docs/tree/master/rakudo-star) ([history](https://github.com/docker-library/docs/commits/master/rakudo-star)) - **Supported Docker versions**: [the latest release](https://github.com/docker/docker-ce/releases/latest) (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](http://rakudo.org) GitHub repository: [https://github.com/rakudo/star](https://github.com/rakudo/star) The Dockerfile responsible: [http://github.com/perl6/docker/tree/master/Dockerfile](http://github.com/perl6/docker/tree/master/Dockerfile) Perl 6 Language Specification: [http://design.perl6.org/](http://design.perl6.org/) Perl 6 Language Documentation: [http://doc.perl6.org/](http://doc.perl6.org/)  # How to use this image Simply running a container with the image will launch a Perl 6 REPL: ```console $ docker run -it rakudo-star > say 'Hello, Perl!' Hello, Perl! ``` You can also provide perl6 command line switches to `docker run`: ```console $ 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/](https://rt.perl.org/) # License View [license information](https://github.com/rakudo/star/blob/master/LICENSE) for the software contained in this image. As with all Docker images, these likely also contain other software which may be under other licenses (such as Bash, etc from the base distribution, along with any direct or indirect dependencies of the primary software being contained). Some additional license information which was able to be auto-detected might be found in [the `repo-info` repository's `rakudo-star/` directory](https://github.com/docker-library/repo-info/tree/master/repos/rakudo-star). As for any pre-built image usage, it is the image user's responsibility to ensure that any use of this image complies with any relevant licenses for all software contained within.