Hello All,

I did some testing on Windows last night. I was able to build and run
WSPR using Pillow v2.7.0 but, it required a minor import change to
wspr.py. The change did not fail when using Pillow v2.3.0.

I found this today:

Pillow >= 2.1.0 no longer supports “import _imaging”. Please use:

“from PIL.Image import core as _imaging” instead.

Link: http://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html

This directly relates to the: "import _imaging not found" error we're
seeing when using Pillow >=2.6.1. If 2.3.0, 2.6.1 and 2.7.0 all work as
expected when changing the import call to what the Pillow documents
state. Maybe a change in wsjt.py and wspr.py is in order??

On Windows, updating Pillow to 2.7.0 is easy using PIP3 and does not
require build / development dependencies, as it comes pre-built for the
Python version being used (3.3 / 3.4 etc).

On Linux, however, it is not as simple. From my findings, most of the
ditro's that are using Pillow =< 2.5.0 compile against Tc\Tk-8.5-dev.
The distros using Pillow >= 2.6.1 are built against Tc\Tk-8.6-dev and
some additional image dependencies.

Ubuntu 14.10 (Trusty) and Debian 8.0 (Jessie) are both using Pillow
>=2.6.1 built against Tc\Tk-8.6-dev. However, neither have yet to update
their python3-pil packages to 2.7.0. Is 2.6.1 really an issue? I don't
know. The question becomes, is it necessary to run 2.7.0 if the import
call is modified in WSJT.py and WSPR.py??

I've not had time to check Fedora, SUSE and neighboring RPM based
distro's, so if any of the RPM based package Maintainers could have a
poke around it would be most helpful.

73's
Greg, KI7MT



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