Nod to elro's explanation to image-sig re: setuptools-compat

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Pillow Pillow
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Pillow is a "friendly" fork of the Python Imaging Library. The goal is to see Pillow is a "friendly" PIL fork. PIL is the Python Imaging Library.
if any improvement can be made to the packaging situation(*) by opening up
development to the "public" and exploring the problem within the fork.
Please email: aclark@aclark.net if you'd like to help, or complain. Introduction
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(*) PIL aims to support the 'import Image' statement which will fail whenever The author's goal is to foster packaging improvements by publicizing
there is another 'Image' module in the top level namespace. development and exploring packaging problems within the fork.
For PIL's README, check out PIL.txt Explanation
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PIL is currently not setuptools compatible. See:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-August/006480.html for a
detailed explanation.
Python Imaging Library
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For PIL's README, please see PIL.txt