Pillow
-Pillow
-Pillow is the "friendly" PIL fork
+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 active development of PIL through:
+ +-
+
- Publicized development activity +
- Solicitation for community contributions +
- Regular releases to the Python Packaging Index +
Why a fork?
+ +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?
+ +Please report any non-packaging related issues here first:
+ +Then open a ticket here:
+ +and provide a link to the first ticket so we can track the issue(s) upstream.
+ +Documentation
+ +The API documentation included with PIL has been converted (from HTML) to
+reStructured text (via pandoc) and is now hosted by readthedocs.org <http://pillow.readthedocs.org>_.
What follows is the PIL 1.1.7 README contents.
+ +Python Imaging Library
+ +Introduction
+ +The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities +to your Python environment. This library provides extensive file +format support, an efficient internal representation, and powerful +image processing capabilities.
+ +This source kit has been built and tested with Python 2.0 and newer, +on Windows, Mac OS X, and major Unix platforms. Large parts of the +library also work on 1.5.2 and 1.6.
+ +The main distribution site for this software is:
+ + http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
+That site also contains information about free and commercial support +options, PIL add-ons, answers to frequently asked questions, and more.
+ +Development versions (alphas, betas) are available here:
+ + http://effbot.org/downloads/
+The PIL handbook is not included in this distribution; to get the +latest version, check:
+ + http://www.pythonware.com/library/
+For installation and licensing details, see below.
+ +Support Options
+ +Commercial Support
+ +
+Secret Labs (PythonWare) offers support contracts for companies using
+the Python Imaging Library in commercial applications, and in mission-
+critical environments. The support contract includes technical support,
+bug fixes, extensions to the PIL library, sample applications, and more.
+
+For the full story, check:
+
+ http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/support.htm
+
+
+Free Support
+For support and general questions on the Python Imaging Library, send +e-mail to the Image SIG mailing list:
+ + image-sig@python.org
+You can join the Image SIG by sending a mail to:
+ + image-sig-request@python.org
+Put "subscribe" in the message body to automatically subscribe to the +list, or "help" to get additional information. Alternatively, you can +send your questions to the Python mailing list, python-list@python.org, +or post them to the newsgroup comp.lang.python. DO NOT SEND SUPPORT +QUESTIONS TO PYTHONWARE ADDRESSES.
+ +Software License
+ +See COPYING
+