# Install corral with Homebrew

Dependency manager for the Pony language. Version 0.9.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:corral
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install corral
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:corral
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.9.2
- **Source summary:** Dependency manager for the Pony language
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/ponylang/corral>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ponylang/corral>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- corral (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.9.2
## Project history and usage

Corral is the Pony language dependency manager. It manages Pony bundles with corral.json manifests, lock.json revision locks, a shared VCS repo cache, and a per-project dependency tree used to populate PONYPATH.

### Project history

The official repository was created in 2017 and describes Corral as beta-level software. Its design notes explain the name as a deliberate sibling to Pony Stable: a corral is like a stable, but distinct enough to avoid confusion with the older Pony dependency tool.

### Adoption history

Corral grew out of requirements work comparing Pony's needs with dependency managers in Go, Rust, and earlier Pony Stable workflows. Its design favors source-based dependencies, semver constraints, VCS locators, and checked-in lock files for reproducible Pony builds.

### How it is used

A typical project runs corral init to create corral.json and lock.json, corral add to add a dependency, corral update to resolve and fetch dependencies, and corral run -- ponyc to compile with the resolved dependency directories on PONYPATH.

### Why package nerds care

Corral is package-nerd material because it encodes a small-language dependency-management model: bundle-vs-package terminology, VCS-backed locators, transitive dependencies, lock files, and a separation between a shared repo cache and per-project checked-out dependency tree.

### Timeline

- 2017: Official GitHub repository created.
- 2010s: Design documents compare Pony dependency management with Go, Rust, and Pony Stable approaches.
- Present: README recommends ponyup for prebuilt binaries on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

### Related projects

- Related projects include Pony, ponyc, ponyup, Pony Stable, Go modules, Cargo, and other VCS-oriented dependency managers.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/ponylang/corral>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ponylang/corral/main/README.md>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ponylang/corral/main/doc/design.md>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ponylang/corral/main/doc/package_dependency_management.md>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ponylang/corral/main/DOCS.md>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/ponylang/corral>


## Security Notes

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: corral.json, lock.json

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/corral.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/corral.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph