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Re: tiffany 0.6 released

Date 2012-06-26 11:10 +0200
From Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com>
Subject Re: tiffany 0.6 released
References <4FE7C301.6010101@stackless.com> <4FE8D9FB.8010101@stackless.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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Christian Tismer wrote:
> Abour tiffany...
>
> On 6/25/12 3:46 AM, Christian Tismer wrote:
>> Tiffany - Read/Write Multipage-Tiff with PIL without PIL
>> ========================================================
>>
>> Tiffany stands for any tiff. The tiny module solves a large set of
>> problems, has no dependencies and just works wherever Python works.
>> Tiffany was developed in the course of the *DiDoCa* project and will
>> always appear on PyPi.
>>
>> Version 0.6
>> -----------
>>
>> This is a compatibility update for Python 3.2.
>>
>> Tiffany now works on Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2.
>>
>> This version also reduces the needed PIL files to only four. The
>> same files work for python2 and python3.
>>
>> You can help me by sending some tiff files with different encoding
>> and larger file size for testing.
>>
>> I'm also thinking of
>>
>> - an interface to Qt (without adding a dependency)
>>
>> - a command line interface, to make tiffany into a new tiff tool,
>>
>> - support for other toolkits that need to handle tiff files.
>>
>> Ideas about this are most welcome.
>>
>> Please let me know if this stuff works for you, and send requests to
>> <tismer@stackless.com> or use the links in the bitbucket website:
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/didoca/tiffany
>>
>> cheers -- Chris
>>
>
> Howdy.
>
> I saw quite a lot of downloads of this package now, but not
> a single reaction or any feedback.
>
> How can I get more than just down-loaders?
> I would like to know, if
>
> - this module is of use for you
> - if there are wishes to get more functionality
> - if it makes sense at all
> - if there are feature requests.
>
> I could stop right now, freeze development as the stuff does what is
> supposed to do in the relevant Python versions, name it 1.0 and forget
> about it.
>
> But I don't want to.
> Can somebody please give me some feedback?
> Criticism?
> Helpful, useless, boring, whatsoever?
>
> thanks -- cheers - Chris
>
Well, multi page tiff looks like a niche to me.

Anyway, the word play tiff-any is clever, that's all I can say :D

JM

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Re: tiffany 0.6 released Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2012-06-26 11:10 +0200

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