Within the Plone comunity, Pillow has been the "de facto" flavour of PIL for several months now. The fact it behaves as expected with package management (easy_install, PIL), is vital for large web projects which are based on buildout and expect Python projects to install properly.
Plone itself is not going Python 3 anytime soon - but it is a strong comunity making use of Pillow, and I found this information relevant on the context here. js -><- On 10 October 2012 16:07, Alex Clark <acl...@aclark.net> wrote: > On 2012-10-10 16:00:40 +0000, Alex Clark said: > >> On 2012-10-09 20:26:37 +0000, Brian Crowell said: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Mark Sienkiewicz <sienk...@stsci.edu> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> From what I read of Pillow, they aren't really interested in maintaining >>>> a >>>> copy of PIL. Do you mean to fork Pillow, or try to persuade them to let >>>> you >>>> help maintain it? >>> >>> >>> I want to contribute code that would make Pillow Python 3-capable so >>> that Debian/Ubuntu might pick it up, and Python 3 developers would >>> finally have their PIL back. I gathered from the notes that Pillow was >>> a continuation of PIL as a fork, and since it's active, I expect it >>> will be more attractive to the distros than a straight port of PIL >>> 1.1.7. >>> >>> I hoped to hear from Alex Clark. He looks like the main contributor. >> >> >> >> Test. Just wrote a long message and it hasn't made it through yet. Grrr… > > > > And… I can't find my sent messages in Unison. Here's a recap of the > highlights: > > > - I spoke with Felix Schwarz from the Fedora project about including Pillow > in Fedora. So from what I read earlier in this thread about Debian, that > means we potentially have two Linux vendors contemplating inclusion of > Pillow now? > > - Pillow started as a packaging fork, but I now consider image code fixes if > they are tracked upstream (by ticket or commit). > > - I've been considering adding Python 3 support to Pillow. I'm not going to > do the work, but I will help whoever does. I assume that involves picking > the an approach from the "best of" attempts. Python 2.7 and 3.3 support > sounds reasonable to me. If someone wants Python 2.6 they can use an older > Pillow release or PIL itself. We may even back port to the older releases. > > > Alex > > > > > >> >> >>> >>> --Brian >>> _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
