[Image-SIG] Adding Python 3 support

[Alex Clark]

On 2012-10-10 16:00:40 +0000, Alex Clark said:

> On 2012-10-09 20:26:37 +0000, Brian Crowell said:
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Mark Sienkiewicz <sienkiew at stsci.edu> wrote:
>>> 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?
>> 
>> I want to contribute code that would make Pillow Python 3-capable so
>> that Debian/Ubuntu might pick it up, and Python 3 developers would
>> finally have their PIL back. I gathered from the notes that Pillow was
>> a continuation of PIL as a fork, and since it's active, I expect it
>> will be more attractive to the distros than a straight port of PIL
>> 1.1.7.
>> 
>> I hoped to hear from Alex Clark. He looks like the main contributor.
> 
> 
> Test. Just wrote a long message and it hasn't made it through yet. Grrr…


And… I can't find my sent messages in Unison. Here's a recap of the highlights:


- I spoke with Felix Schwarz from the Fedora project about including 
Pillow in Fedora. So from what I read earlier in this thread about 
Debian, that means we potentially have two Linux vendors contemplating 
inclusion of Pillow now?

- Pillow started as a packaging fork, but I now consider image code 
fixes if they are tracked upstream (by ticket or commit).

- I've been considering adding Python 3 support to Pillow. I'm not 
going to do the work, but I will help whoever does. I assume that 
involves picking the an approach from the "best of" attempts. Python 
2.7 and 3.3 support sounds reasonable to me. If someone wants Python 
2.6 they can use an older Pillow release or PIL itself. We may even 
back port to the older releases.


Alex




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