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| <b>Hint:</b> polymake currently undergoes a major refactoring of its codebase. | <b>Hint:</b> polymake currently undergoes a major refactoring of its codebase. |
| One reason is an incompatibility of the current code with perl version 5.38 and its successors. | One reason are changes in perl version 5.38 and its successors that restrict access to various internal functions. |
| This is why polymake temporarily vanished from several Linux distributions. | This is why polymake temporarily vanished from several Linux distributions. |
| Users should download our tarballs with a <a href="/doku.php/install/jll"><img heigth="20" width="20" alt="Download" src="/theme_files/images/download-pm.png"/>prebuilt polymake</a> (including a suitable perl). | Users can download our tarballs with a <a href="/doku.php/install/jll"><img heigth="20" width="20" alt="Download" src="/theme_files/images/download-pm.png"/>prebuilt polymake</a> (including a suitable perl).<br/> |
| | <b>Update:</b> The latest polymake 4.11 restores compatibility with perl 5.38 but it is unclear if these workarounds will stay possible for future perl releases. |
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