Crude attempt at clarifying the "PIL problem"

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Alex Clark 2010-07-31 19:55:42 -04:00
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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