Disappeared from Arch Linux repos

[lgoettgens]

Some time in the last weeks, polymake disappeared from the Arch Linux package repositories. The corresponding webpage is https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/polymake/
What is the recommended workaround for that? Are there plans to bring polymake back to the Arch repos?

Thanks!

[gawrilow]

The most probable reason is the incompatibility with the new perl version 5.38. This incompatibility turned out to be of such a fundamental nature that we decided to "divorce" polymake from perl altogether. This is, however, a large scale refactoring which takes substantial time. Until it's finished, a workaround is to install an older perl <= 5.36 parallel to the system one and then compile polymake from the sources. You might also want to try the docker image available at dockerhub.

[gawrilow]

The most probable reason is the incompatibility with the new perl version 5.38. This incompatibility turned out to be of such a fundamental nature that we decided to "divorce" polymake from perl altogether. This is, however, a large scale refactoring which takes substantial time. Until it's finished, a workaround is to install an older perl <= 5.36 parallel to the system one and then compile polymake from the sources. You might also want to try the docker image available at dockerhub.

[gawrilow]

polymake 4.11 made it back to the Arch repos.