[Image-SIG] Adding Python 3 support

[Mark Sienkiewicz]

On 10/09/12 16:02, Brian Crowell wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Mark Sienkiewicz<sienkiew at stsci.edu>  wrote:
>> So, how do you get people to know about and use your package?
> Well, that's why I asked the Debian package maintainer first. He
> pointed me here. He wasn't exactly clear, but he seemed interested in
> Pillow as the source of a Python 3 port specifically because it's
> under active development. He didn't sound interested in a replacement
> for PIL under Python 2. If we can make it attractive to Debian as the
> official Python 3 version of PIL, I think that's a big step forward.


That would be extremely helpful, especially if the package is identified as "PIL replacement for Python 3" or some such, so that people looking for PIL can find it.


>  From what I'm hearing, it seems to me the sensible plan is to combine
> the previous Python 3 ports (counting Hajime's, that's three I've
> found) on top of current Pillow, and drop support for Python 2.5 and
> older. I'll get started.


 From what I read of Pillow, they aren't really interested in maintaining a copy of PIL.  Do you mean to fork Pillow, or try to persuade them to let you help maintain it?