On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Stani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Op vrijdag 20-06-2008 om 03:09 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Sebastian > Haase: >> Hi Catalin, >> >> don't put up your hopes ..... It seems there is a long list of >> not-yet-included patches .... > There are and they are not archived in a structured way. You have to > Google or dig through the archives of this mailing list, which is > inefficient at least. > >> I think the situation is getting out of hand ? > Right now I solve it by shipping my own patched PIL with my > applications, but this is not an ideal solution. New patches appear from > time to time and it is hard to keep up. >> >> Others ? Comments ? >> >> Don't misunderstand me -- I'm very thankful for PIL ! I would be much >> worse off without it !! > Me too and I guess that is true for everyone on this list. PIL follows > the successful model of open source (just like python, ubuntu, ...): > having a benevolent dictator in charge. I'd like to thank Fredrik Lundh > for the amazing work he is doing on PIL. > > However what is missing is a platform which enables collaborative input. > Right now some patches get accepted, while others get ignored without > any statement. This opaqueness is far from ideal, but I can live with > it. (I would never want to claim what somebody has to do in his free > time.) However I do feel the need to create for example a launchpad page > where all patches can be submitted, tested & reviewed by other pil users > and where you can see the popularity of a patch by the amount of people > who subscribed to it. Even if this launchpad page is unofficial and > maintained by the PIL users/community, I would think this would also > save some work load for Fredrik Lundh as he can benefit from the tests > and reviews by other people. In the case where patches are not accepted > by him in a new release, the community could update the patch to the new > version. > > This is just a humble proposal. Fredrik, in case you have a proposal > which would suit you better just let us know. I will be happy to follow > it. >
This sounds good to me. I think the current complication comes also from the fact that there is a commercial PIL license (http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/support.htm) that gives preferred / exclusive SVN access if you pay $1950 / year --- so if someone else provides a patch he cannot even get the pached version back himself. Fredrik, I hope I did not misunderstand this, but if you could give some extra comments, it might clarify the situation better. When is the next (free) 1.1.7 version coming ... ? In the meantime, Stani, could you say, where you keep your (patched) version of PIL ? Is it downloadable as a separate package ? With binaries ? Thanks, Sebastian Haase _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
