Sorry in avance for the (wrong?) reply. Maybe what you mean is if Perl6 will work in "all in a folder" autosufficient and isolated about other systems dependencies. Note that your are passing the working dir as an absolute path and perl (without taking care about where is it) works it. As far as I know, java runtime runs this way, and nothing stop parrot from doing same. Nevertheless if you can "chroot" the bird, it should sing fine!