diff --git a/dev-libs/wren/Manifest b/dev-libs/wren/Manifest
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+DIST wren-0.2.0.tar.gz 1791488 BLAKE2B a2f48e9b115ea89cf25af1fe8cefa3c26639ce06f89796df4f5eb744b2382b44f83d6285eedfa9cb5681342cc8ebca535bae586445225622c8ebdb30c7088975 SHA512 67912df14d8afa16a4e50fa67e232870e08eb392601f7b1633bcfb242f2de7624b9a3501df9e1ae40fb62646db57ff6553733ddb3015b6b5086999dadf7d2da2
diff --git a/dev-libs/wren/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/wren/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <longdescription lang="en">
+Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language
+Think Smalltalk in a Lua-sized package with a dash of Erlang and wrapped up in a familiar, modern syntax.
+  </longdescription>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <email>m.santullo@posteo.net</email>
+    <name>Michele Santullo</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <bugs-to>https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/issues</bugs-to>
+	<remote-id type="github">wren-lang/wren</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+  <use>
+    <flag name="tools">Install the wren command line interpreter</flag>
+  </use>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-libs/wren/wren-0.2.0.ebuild b/dev-libs/wren/wren-0.2.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="The Wren Programming Language"
+HOMEPAGE="http://wren.io/"
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/wren-lang/${PN}.git"
+	inherit git-r3
+	KEYWORDS=""
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/wren-lang/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="static-libs tools"
+
+DEPEND=">=dev-libs/libuv-1.10.0"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND=""
+#BDEPEND="test? ( dev-lang/python )"
+#RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+src_configure() {
+	return
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	local targets=""
+
+	if use static-libs ; then
+		#do both shared and static libs
+		targets="${targets} vm"
+	else
+		targets="${targets} shared"
+	fi
+	if use tools ; then
+		targets="${targets} cli"
+	fi
+	#I don't think tests are working, I just get lots of linker errors
+	#if use test ; then
+	#	targets="${targets} api_test unit_test"
+	#fi
+
+	tc-export AR CC
+	emake -f util/wren.mk LIBUV_DIR=${EPREFIX}/usr LIBUV=${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)/libuv.so VERBOSE=1 ${targets}
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	if use tools ; then
+		dobin bin/wren
+	fi
+	if use static-libs ; then
+		dolib.a lib/libwren.a
+	fi
+	dolib.so lib/libwren.so
+}
diff --git a/dev-libs/wren/wren-9999.ebuild b/dev-libs/wren/wren-9999.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="The Wren Programming Language"
+HOMEPAGE="http://wren.io/"
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/wren-lang/${PN}.git"
+	inherit git-r3
+	KEYWORDS=""
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/wren-lang/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="static-libs tools"
+
+DEPEND=">=dev-libs/libuv-1.10.0"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND=""
+#BDEPEND="test? ( dev-lang/python )"
+#RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+src_configure() {
+	return
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	local targets=""
+
+	if use static-libs ; then
+		#do both shared and static libs
+		targets="${targets} vm"
+	else
+		targets="${targets} shared"
+	fi
+	if use tools ; then
+		targets="${targets} cli"
+	fi
+	#I don't think tests are working, I just get lots of linker errors
+	#if use test ; then
+	#	targets="${targets} api_test unit_test"
+	#fi
+
+	tc-export AR CC
+	emake -f util/wren.mk LIBUV_DIR=${EPREFIX}/usr LIBUV=${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)/libuv.so VERBOSE=1 ${targets}
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	if use tools ; then
+		dobin bin/wren
+	fi
+	if use static-libs ; then
+		dolib.a lib/libwren.a
+	fi
+	dolib.so lib/libwren.so
+}