Hi,

imageio v1.3 is available now: http://imageio.readthedocs.org

Imageio is growing in popularity and a user just suggested that skimage
should use it as the default plugin, which reminded me of this thread.
Time to revive this discussion?

- Almar

On 04-02-15 15:45, Almar Klein wrote:
> FYI:
>
> imageio v1.1 is available now.
>
> Release notes: http://imageio.readthedocs.org/en/latest/releasenotes.html
>
> - Almar
>
> On 19-11-14 13:01, Steven Silvester wrote:
>> Yes, all imports would have to be relative.  I've chimed in on #42, but
>> posting my thoughts here:
>>
>> "I'd vote to have a source-only version, and wheels for 64 bit Linux,
>> Windows, and OSX with just the freeimage support.
>> Rather that auto-downloading, it would be nice to present the user with
>> the option of whether to download an external lib, perhaps as a simple
>> Tk dialog.
>> I think partial functionality is fine in this case given the nature of
>> the library."
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> On Thursday, November 13, 2014 3:03:27 PM UTC-6, Almar Klein wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     I'm pleased to announce version 1.0 of imageio - a library for
>> reading
>>     and writing images. This library started as a spin-off of the
>> freeimage
>>     plugin in skimage, and is now a fully-fledged library with unit tests
>>     and all.
>>
>>     Imageio provides an easy interface to read and write a wide range of
>>     image data, including animated images, volumetric data, and
>> scientific
>>     formats. It is cross-platform, runs on Python 2.x and 3.x, and is
>> easy
>>     to install.
>>
>>     Imageio is plugin-based, making it easy to extend. It could probably
>>     use
>>     more scientific formats. I welcome anyone who's interested to
>>     contribute!
>>
>>     install: pip install imageio
>>     website: http://imageio.github.io
>>     release notes:
>>     http://imageio.readthedocs.org/en/latest/releasenotes.html
>>     <http://imageio.readthedocs.org/en/latest/releasenotes.html>
>>
>>     Regards,
>>         Almar
>>
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