#13768: upgrade polymake to version 2.12-rc3
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Reporter: tkluck | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.10
Component: packages: standard | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers:
Authors: Timo Kluck | Merged in:
Dependencies: #13767 | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by tkluck):
Replying to [comment:18 kcrisman]:
> Anyway, for this ticket it would be helpful to find a way to do it
''with'' readline.
I think that Sage's polymake interface through pexpect (on the sage side)
and readline (on the polymake side) is currently broken anyway,
independent of this upgrade. IIRC, the current polymake package fails to
install in recent versions of sage. And on the other hand, the new version
of polymake from this ticket doesn't work with the current library code:
it outputs copyright info to stderr, which sage interprets as an error
having occurred.
So in fact, I'm not sure if we really need to try to make the
pexpect/readline interface work, when there's already efforts underway for
replacing it by the shared library interface from the new version of
polymake. That is to say, I'm not inclined to spend much time on that.
(This is an example of a ticket needing a simultaneous change in a package
and in the sage library code. For these tickets, the transition to a
unified repository is very useful.)
> But how do we disable it needing that - is there yet ''another''
configure option that would disable it?
The polymake configure script will only ''warn'' about cpan packages not
being available, and it will still install without them. As long as we
don't use the readline features, and as long as we ask the user to install
those other packages from cpan, there is no problem. That is, if those
other packages install correctly on MacOS. Do they?
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