Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

2012-10-02 Thread WhisperingWally
Gelonida N gelonida at gmail.com writes: I wondered whether some of you have a little more insight into what's going on with PIL. AFAIK the latest PIL stuff lives here: hg.effbot.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

2012-10-02 Thread Alex Clark
On 2012-10-02 09:26:56 +, WhisperingWally said: Gelonida N gelonida at gmail.com writes: I wondered whether some of you have a little more insight into what's going on with PIL. AFAIK the latest PIL stuff lives here: hg.effbot.org Certainly true, though somewhat meaningless in the

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

2012-09-26 Thread Gelonida N
On 09/25/2012 02:42 PM, alex23 wrote: On Sep 25, 6:25 pm, Gelonida N gelon...@gmail.com wrote: So it seems to be safe to use either Christoph' binary PIL distribution or to use Pillow. The fact, that pillow is accessable via PyPi / easy_install / PIP pushes me slightly towards pillow. I

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

2012-09-26 Thread alex23
On Sep 27, 7:44 am, Gelonida N gelon...@gmail.com wrote: This is what is confusing me. if I start with a new python and I just install Pillow, then pillow is imported via import PIL so it does not seem to have a separate name space If I had PIL and pillow installed, then I wouldn't even

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

2012-09-25 Thread Gelonida N
On 09/25/2012 01:38 AM, alex23 wrote: On Sep 25, 6:04 am, Gelonida N gelon...@gmail.com wrote: This all does not sound very comforting. Why is there no fix on the official site? Has a bug been logged about the issue? The Plone community keeps a fairly up-to-date fork called Pillow, we've had

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

2012-09-25 Thread alex23
On Sep 25, 6:25 pm, Gelonida N gelon...@gmail.com wrote: So it seems to be safe to use either Christoph' binary PIL distribution or to use Pillow. The fact, that pillow is accessable via PyPi / easy_install / PIP pushes me slightly towards pillow. I assume it's best to uninstall PIL before

PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

2012-09-24 Thread Gelonida N
Hi, I'm trying to migrate a project with legacy code from 2.6 (with PIL 1.1.6) to 2.7 with (PIL 1.1.7) The SW should run on Windows. PIL fails with an error concering '_imagingft' This seems to be a known issue. http://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/issues/detail?id=300 and the bug was never

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

2012-09-24 Thread alex23
On Sep 25, 6:04 am, Gelonida N gelon...@gmail.com wrote: This all does not sound very comforting. Why is there no fix on the official site? Has a bug been logged about the issue? The Plone community keeps a fairly up-to-date fork called Pillow, we've had a lot of success using that locally:

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

2012-09-24 Thread cjgohlke
On Monday, September 24, 2012 4:38:05 PM UTC-7, alex23 wrote: On Sep 25, 6:04 am, Gelonida N gelon...@gmail.com wrote: This all does not sound very comforting. Why is there no fix on the official site? Has a bug been logged about the issue? See issue #1 at

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

2012-09-24 Thread Alex Clark
On 2012-09-24 23:38:05 +, alex23 said: On Sep 25, 6:04 am, Gelonida N gelon...@gmail.com wrote: This all does not sound very comforting. Why is there no fix on the official site? Has a bug been logged about the issue? The Plone community keeps a fairly up-to-date fork called Pillow,

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

2012-09-24 Thread alex23
On Sep 25, 6:04 am, Gelonida N gelon...@gmail.com wrote: So I'll probably try to install the custom binary, but would like to know whether anybody has experience with this build.http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pil Sorry, I missed this the first time. I'm using this version

Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

2012-09-24 Thread alex23
On Sep 25, 11:46 am, Alex Clark acl...@aclark.net wrote: Actually, I started it for the Plone community, but have recently broadened the scope (since most of the contributions came from outside Plone). You're a saint, thanks for taking this on. --