Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'url:pypi': 0.03; 'binary': 0.05; 'plone': 0.05; 'pil': 0.07; 'pypi': 0.07; 'confuse': 0.09; 'fork': 0.09; 'issue?': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'sep': 0.09; 'subject:2.7': 0.09; 'subject:PIL': 0.09; 'subject:still': 0.09; 'uninstalled': 0.09; 'worse': 0.09; 'bug': 0.10; 'assume': 0.11; 'up-to-date': 0.13; 'slightly': 0.15; '(just': 0.16; 'compile.': 0.16; 'easy_install': 0.16; 'pushes': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:Problems': 0.16; 'subject:questions': 0.16; 'uninstall': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'fix': 0.17; '(or': 0.18; 'windows': 0.19; 'fairly': 0.21; 'installed': 0.23; 'seems': 0.23; 'non': 0.24; 'linux': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'am,': 0.27; 'installing': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'environment': 0.29; 'smart': 0.29; 'towards': 0.32; 'url:python': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'thanks': 0.34; 'community': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; "didn't": 0.36; 'keeps': 0.37; 'does': 0.37; 'why': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'called': 0.39; 'little': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'think': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'safe': 0.63; 'success': 0.63; 'sound': 0.65; 'fact,': 0.69; 'gelonida': 0.84; 'myself)': 0.84; 'site?': 0.84; 'subject:alternatives': 0.84; 'tricky': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Gelonida N Subject: Re: PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives? Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:25:26 +0200 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: unicorn.dungeon.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120827 Thunderbird/15.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 39 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1348561539 news.xs4all.nl 6940 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59734 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:30046 On 09/25/2012 01:38 AM, alex23 wrote: > On Sep 25, 6:04 am, Gelonida N wrote: >> This all does not sound very comforting. Why is there no fix on the >> official site? > > Has a bug been logged about the issue? > > The Plone community keeps a fairly up-to-date fork called Pillow, > we've had a lot of success using that locally: > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/ > Thanks for all your answers. So it seems to be safe to use either Christoph' binary PIL distribution or to use Pillow. The fact, that pillow is accessable via PyPi / easy_install / PIP pushes me slightly towards pillow. I assume it's best to uninstall PIL before installing pillow. How much would I confuse easy_install / pip in a normal windows non virutal environment if I didn't uninstall PIP before (or even worse if I installed PIL, then pillow and uninstalled then PIL) (Just anticipating all the smart thigns, that my collegues (or myself) might do On a Linux machine: What would happen in a virtualenv with sitepackages (amonst them PIL installed and a pillow installed ontop of it? I don't think I can uninstall PIL, as many distro packages depend on it. I don't want to create a virtualenv without site packages, as I have many dependencies and some of them are a little tricky to compile.