[Image-SIG] Adding Python 3 support

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

Within the Plone comunity, Pillow has been the "de facto" flavour of PIL for
several months now. The fact it behaves as expected with
package management (easy_install, PIL), is vital for large
web projects which are based on buildout and expect
Python projects to install properly.

Plone itself is not going Python 3 anytime soon - but it is a strong
comunity making use of Pillow, and I found this information relevant
on the context here.

   js
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On 10 October 2012 16:07, Alex Clark <aclark at aclark.net> wrote:
> 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.
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>> Test. Just wrote a long message and it hasn't made it through yet. Grrr…
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> And… I can't find my sent messages in Unison. Here's a recap of the
> highlights:
>
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> - 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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>>>
>>> --Brian
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