From 2dce8d7a8a0e64f84994b6ac437e2d96920f094e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Omer Katz Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:23:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Recommend using Pillow instead of PIL. --- docs/api-guide/fields.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/api-guide/fields.md b/docs/api-guide/fields.md index 03c5af32a..b0dedd394 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/fields.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/fields.md @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ An image representation. Corresponds to `django.forms.fields.ImageField`. -Requires the `PIL` package. +Requires either the `Pillow` package or `PIL` package. It is strongly recommends to use `Pillow` where possible. `PIL` is practically unmaintained and introduces [many problems][pilproblems]. Signature and validation is the same as with `FileField`. @@ -345,3 +345,4 @@ As an example, let's create a field that can be used represent the class name of [ecma262]: http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-15.9.1.15 [strftime]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior [iso8601]: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime +[pilproblems]: http://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/about.html