From 163847b1611c627d0abab0702858e3937dc3fe19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Clark Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 14:10:25 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] More detail --- README.rst | 28 ++++++++++++++++++---------- docs/HISTORY.txt | 2 +- setup.py | 2 +- 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 9a6efcd84..66ef02b41 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -3,29 +3,37 @@ Pillow ====== -Pillow is the "friendly" PIL fork. PIL is the Python Imaging Library. +Pillow is the "friendly" PIL fork. PIL is the Python Imaging Library. Pillow was +started for and is currently maintained by the Plone community. But it is used by +many other folks in the Python web community, and probably elsewhere too. Introduction ------------ -The fork author's goal is to foster packaging improvements by publicizing -development and exploring packaging problems within the fork. +The fork author's goal is to foster packaging improvements via: -Justification -------------- +- Publicized development and solicitation of community support. +- Exploration of packaging problems within the fork, most noticably + via adding setuptools support but also via clean up & refactoring + of packaging code. + +Why a fork? +----------- PIL is currently not setuptools compatible. Please see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-August/006480.html for a -more detailed explanation. +more detailed explanation. Also, PIL's current release/maintenance schedule +is not compatible with the various & frequent packaging issues that have +occured. + Python Imaging Library ----------------------- +====================== -What follows is mostly the original PIL documentation. +What follows is (mostly) the original PIL documentation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction --------------------------------------------------------------------- +------------ The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities to your Python environment. This library provides extensive file diff --git a/docs/HISTORY.txt b/docs/HISTORY.txt index 54d6cb46b..352ec7afb 100644 --- a/docs/HISTORY.txt +++ b/docs/HISTORY.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Changelog - Fix for sys.platform = "linux3" [blueyed] -- Package cleanup +- Package cleanup and additional documentation [aclark] 1.7.4 (2011-07-21) diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py index 0ca30f9fe..f2d86f4f4 100644 --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ setup( _read('docs/HISTORY.txt')), author='Alex Clark (fork author)', author_email='aclark@aclark.net', - url='http://github.org/collective/pillow', + url='http://github.org/collective/Pillow', classifiers=[ "Development Status :: 6 - Mature", "Topic :: Multimedia :: Graphics",