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Pillow
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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
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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
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- 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?
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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.
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Introduction
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The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities
to your Python environment. This library provides extensive file

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- Fix for sys.platform = "linux3"
[blueyed]
- Package cleanup
- Package cleanup and additional documentation
[aclark]
1.7.4 (2011-07-21)

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_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",