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About Pillow
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Goals
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The fork authors' goal is to foster active development of PIL through:
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- Continuous integration testing via `Travis CI`_
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- Publicized development activity on `GitHub`_
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- Regular releases to the `Python Package Index`_
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- Solicitation for community contributions and involvement on `Image-SIG`_
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.. _Travis CI: https://travis-ci.org/python-imaging/Pillow
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.. _GitHub: https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow
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.. _Python Package Index: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow
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.. _Image-SIG: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
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Why a fork?
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PIL is not setuptools compatible. Please see `this Image-SIG post`_ for a more
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detailed explanation. Also, PIL's current bi-yearly (or greater) release
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schedule is too infrequent to accomodate the large number and frequency of
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issues reported.
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.. _this Image-SIG post: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-August/006480.html
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What about the official PIL?
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.. note::
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Prior to Pillow 2.0.0, very few image code changes were made. Pillow 2.0.0
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added Python 3 support and includes many bug fixes from many contributors.
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As more time passes since the last PIL release, the likelyhood of a new PIL
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release decreases. However, we've yet to hear an official "PIL is dead"
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announcement. So if you still want to support PIL, please
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`report issues here first`_, then
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`open the corresponding Pillow tickets here`_.
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.. _report issues here first: https://bitbucket.org/effbot/pil-2009-raclette/issues
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.. _open the corresponding Pillow tickets here: https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow/issues
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Please provide a link to the PIL ticket so we can track the issue(s) upstream.
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