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--- start [2019/01/31 11:52] – added workshop link and a commented-out section with workshop ad oroehrig
+++ start [2026/09/17 12:17] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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-      <hr>
-      <p>
-      polymake is open source software for research in polyhedral geometry.
-      It deals with polytopes, polyhedra and fans as well as simplicial complexes, matroids, graphs, tropical hypersurfaces, and other objects. Supported platforms include various flavors of Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS.
       <br>
       <a href="/doku.php/boxdoc">
          <button class="button" style="float:right">&#187; try it online!</button>
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+      <hr>
+      <p>
+      polymake is open source software for research in polyhedral geometry.
+      It deals with polytopes, polyhedra and fans as well as simplicial complexes, matroids, graphs, tropical hypersurfaces, and other objects. Supported platforms include various flavors of Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS.
+      </p>
+      <!--
+      <p class="dark">
+      <b>Hint:</b> polymake currently undergoes a major refactoring of its codebase.
+      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.
+      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.
       </p>
+      -->
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            <a href="/doku.php/download/start">
-              <button class="button">Get Polymake!</button>
+              <button class="button fixed_width_button">Get Polymake!</button>
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+            <button class="button fixed_width_button">User Guide</button>
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+      <div class="middleCol">
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+         <a href="/doku.php/workshops/start">
+            <button class="button fixed_width_button">Workshops</button>
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          <p>polymake provides interfaces to various mathematical software. It also supports an extension system, allowing users to write and maintain their additions to the polymake code outside the distribution.</p>
           <br>
-               <a href="/doku.php/external_software">External software we use</a><br>
                <a href="/doku.php/extensions">Extensions</a><br>
                <a href="/doku.php/user_guide/extend/extensions">Write your own extension!</a><br>
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-      <div class="col">  <h3>The polymake Database</h3>
+      <div class="col">  <h3>polyhedral data</h3>
-               <p>polyDB is a database for objects in discrete geometry and related areas that can be accessed from within polymake.</p>
+               <p>polymake comes with its own dataformat and database interface to the polyDB. Additionally there exist a wide variety of other datasets that can be treated by polymake, but do not fit into the polyDB directly</p>
+               <br>
+               <a href="/doku.php/user_guide/howto/polydb_tutorial">polyDB wiki page</a>
                <br>
-               <a href="/doku.php/polydb">polyDB wiki page</a>
+               <a href="/doku.php/polydb">polyhedral data overview</a>
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                 <h3>Research with polymake</h3>
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                <a href="/doku.php/publications"><button class="button">List of publications</button></a>
                <br><br>
+                <h3>External software</h3>
+                <p>polymake makes use of various external software packages.</p>
+                <a href="/doku.php/external_software"><button class="button">List of external software</button></a>
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       <h4>Citation</h4>
-      If you are using polymake we would like to ask you to cite at least one of the following papers [<a href="http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~joswig/polymake.bib">BibTeX entries</a>]:
+      If you are using polymake we would like to ask you to cite at least one of the following papers [<a href="http://page.math.tu-berlin.de/~joswig/polymake.bib">BibTeX entries</a>]:
       <ul>
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    <h4>Become a fan!</h4>
-   Get your polymake fan T-shirt <a href=https://shop.spreadshirt.de/polymake/">here!</a>
+   Get your polymake fan T-shirt <a href="https://shop.spreadshirt.de/polymake/">here!</a>
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