Hi. I'm interested in helping bring PIL to Python 3. I contacted Matthias Klose, the package maintainer for PIL, to see which codebase he thought would be best to do that on, and he pointed me to Pillow, so I'm here to ask about what's been done so far for Python 3 support and what I could do.
I noticed there was a patch series porting PIL 1.1.6 to Py3k about four years ago at https://github.com/sloonz/pil-py3k. Barring anything else, it seemed like the best plan would be to port that patch series forward to Pillow, since the hardest thing about the conversion will be the bytes vs. str division, and that patch series claims to have worked out a lot of the kinks. The key question seems to be: What's the earliest version of Python you would want to support afterwards? Supporting earlier than 2.6 isn't so hard in the C code, but might be difficult in the Python code. Let me know your thoughts on this, and if anyone's beaten me to working on this. --Brian _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
