diff --git a/dev-lang/parrot/Manifest b/dev-lang/parrot/Manifest
index 6a4689963..4ab701463 100644
--- a/dev-lang/parrot/Manifest
+++ b/dev-lang/parrot/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 DIST parrot-4.3.0.tar.bz2 4322552 RMD160 6fabc852f2128d4d3919a6a7d1d73c7c18819c0e SHA1 da5d86180744fed7c7e020a535f413b4a7520fa7 SHA256 5c3f5ba2de06f6adb53b7835374a4f3e0601ec63e8a1d1dba6c6a07e12cc2990
+DIST parrot-4.4.0.tar.bz2 4324058 RMD160 8420b7d9e2e78a607a6224f6beefbad8f7e4cf32 SHA1 b815fa72a91d4d1e0ae5c830172f61d3e4a3a550 SHA256 348ce13fc136afc74a7b50b094f64d8cb00f83f0cd3d59acc6fa4e63c824fa4d
 EBUILD parrot-4.3.0.ebuild 2408 RMD160 cc50bb4031f95aee4c27cd1fa7dd1a59a7615e6e SHA1 56a604d9223d796da328697e0f0ba306cb6281f1 SHA256 848b987e3fafaddc5849000546008351e13481067b10ae84bd68ae257ee33618
+EBUILD parrot-4.4.0.ebuild 2310 RMD160 bd9b9b2af4f44041667416e6cbc7dff574cae2dc SHA1 0d818e7efbd6baaedef0a824dafc8f2dfef75e55 SHA256 2208ed2d478774663bb53153d4159b617333391bb237bfccd125ca573c580e60
 MISC metadata.xml 305 RMD160 647980838c590f54441a053916ea629e53e551c0 SHA1 99ef1deeae9a934fb6e46cf5fc4a5fcb8379a74a SHA256 f05dbef15061919972882cab07057e102760a542beba17d131194091401cd7ca
diff --git a/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-4.4.0.ebuild b/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-4.4.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..153c6c4da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/parrot/parrot-4.4.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: $
+
+EAPI=3
+
+# There's multiple small issues at the moment, so ...
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+inherit eutils multilib
+
+DESCRIPTION="Virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.parrot.org/"
+SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/stable/${PV}/${P}.tar.bz2"
+
+LICENSE="Artistic-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
+IUSE="opengl nls doc examples gdbm gmp ssl +unicode pcre"
+
+RDEPEND="sys-libs/readline
+	opengl? ( media-libs/freeglut )
+	nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )
+	unicode? ( >=dev-libs/icu-2.6 )
+	gdbm? ( >=sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r1 )
+	gmp? ( >=dev-libs/gmp-4.1.4 )
+	ssl? ( dev-libs/openssl )
+	pcre? ( dev-libs/libpcre )"
+
+DEPEND="dev-lang/perl[doc?]
+	${RDEPEND}"
+
+src_configure() {
+	myconf="--disable-rpath"
+	use unicode || myconf+=" --without-icu"
+	use ssl     || myconf+=" --without-crypto"
+	use gdbm    || myconf+=" --without-gdbm"
+	use nls     || myconf+=" --without-gettext"
+	use gmp     || myconf+=" --without-gmp"
+	use opengl  || myconf+=" --without-opengl"
+	use pcre    || myconf+=" --without-pcre"
+
+	perl Configure.pl \
+		--ccflags="${CFLAGS}" \
+		--linkflags="${LDFLAGS}" \
+		--prefix="${EPREFIX}"/usr \
+		--libdir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/$(get_libdir) \
+		--mandir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/man \
+		--sysconfdir="${EPREFIX}"/etc \
+		--sharedstatedir="${EPREFIX}"/var/lib/parrot \
+		$myconf || die
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:}"${S}"/blib/lib
+	# occasionally dies in parallel make
+	emake -j1 || die
+	if use doc ; then
+		emake -j1 html || die
+	fi
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	emake -j1 test || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake -j1 install-dev DESTDIR="${D}" DOC_DIR="${EPREFIX}/usr/share/doc/${PF}" || die
+	dodoc CREDITS DONORS.pod PBC_COMPAT PLATFORMS RESPONSIBLE_PARTIES TODO || die
+	if use examples; then
+		insinto "/usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples"
+		doins -r examples/* || die
+	fi
+	if use doc; then
+		insinto "/usr/share/doc/${PF}/editor"
+		doins -r editor || die
+		cd docs/html
+		dohtml -r developer.html DONORS.pod.html index.html ops.html parrotbug.html pdds.html \
+			pmc.html tools.html docs src tools || die
+	fi
+}