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Pillow
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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.
Pillow is the "friendly" PIL fork, created by Alex Clark. PIL is the Python Imaging Library, created by Fredrik Lundh.
Introduction
------------
The fork author's goal is to foster packaging improvements via:
The fork author's goal is to foster active development of PIL through:
- 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.
- Publicized development activity
- Solicitation for community contributions
- Regular releases to the Python Packaging Index
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. Also, PIL's current release/maintenance schedule
is not compatible with the various & frequent packaging issues that have
occured.
PIL is not setuptools compatible. Please see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-August/006480.html for a more detailed explanation. Also, PIL's current bi-yearly (or greater) release schedule is too slow to address the large number of issues regularly reported.
What about image code bugs?
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- https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow/issues
and provide a link to the first ticket so we can track the issue(s) upstream.
This project does not aim to fix image code bugs, but if we can track them
properly we may consider it. (And the image code could potentially be wholesale
replaced when the next PIL release comes out.)
Documentation
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.. _`hosted by readthedocs.org`: http://pillow.readthedocs.org
What follows is the original PIL README.
What follows is the PIL 1.1.7 README contents.
Python Imaging Library
======================