From 6ad52162a18229b48c1919959897571acd940101 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Clark Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:55:42 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Crude attempt at clarifying the "PIL problem" --- README.txt | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 97655c8f9..26050f525 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -3,12 +3,11 @@ Pillow Pillow is a "friendly" fork of the Python Imaging Library. The goal is to see if any improvement can be made to the packaging situation(*) by opening up -development to the "public". +development to the "public" and exploring the problem within the fork. Please email: aclark@aclark.net if you'd like to help, or complain. -(*)PIL has a bad reputation for not "playing nice" with other packages. It's -kind of a long story, and you either know it by now or you don't. A better -explanation may come later. +(*) PIL aims to support the 'import Image' statement which will fail whenever +there is another 'Image' module in the top level namespace. For PIL's README, check out PIL.txt