2010/7/31 Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com>: >> I have been wanting to tackle this for sometime, and finally got around to >> it tonight. I've created a "friendly" fork of PIL called "Pillow": >> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/1.0 >> >> Some background: I've been doing Plone development for the past 5 years or >> so, and PIL has always "been an issue". I won't get into what the issues are >> now, but I assume folks know them. > > Well, I actually don't know what the "issues" are, but am very > interested in hearing them!
Plone exists in the Zope universe, not the Python universe, which is an issue in itself. In this case, I think the actual "issue" is that Zope uses its own build system that's puts specific requirements on the distutils packaging; requirements that are not compatible with PIL's setup file. Instead of just sit down and contribute a patch like everyone else would have done, they've spent a couple of years ranting on their own mailing lists and occasionally sending me nastygrams (including writing reviews on PyPI telling people to stay away from the software because if it's not convenient to use with a package system you invented yourself, it's worthless for everyone). At least a packaging fork means that someone's over there is producing something more than invectives, but I'd still prefer a patch. </F> _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
