#19934: Switch to a Python 3-compatible imaging library
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Reporter: aaugustin | Owner: nobody
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Component: Python 3 | Version: master
Severity: Release blocker | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Accepted | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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Originally reported by Marijonas Petrauskas on the django-developers
mailing-list
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Why isn't Pillow the recommended Django image library yet? PIL has
been unmaintained for almost 3 years and has a number of annoying bugs
(e.g. fails to open some valid JPEG files, maybe has some security
issues as well). Pillow, on the other hand, is a backwards-compatible
community-maintained fork, which has most of those issues fixed and
will even support Python 3 soon.
I think this change would involve (1) running the test suite with
Pillow, (2) updating the documentation and (3) updating the ImageField
warning shown when PIL is not installed.
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Marking as a release blocker because of our goal to fully support Python 3
in 1.6.
I don't know if Pillow is the best choice, we should review the
alternatives in all cases.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/19934>
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