ANN: FreeImagePy 1.2.2

[Claudio Grondi]

Michele Petrazzo wrote:
> FreeImagePy 1.2.2 is available at freeimagepy.sf.net
> 
> What is?
>   It' a python wrapper for FreeImage, Open Source library for developers
>    who would like to support popular graphics image formats.
> 
> How work?
>   It use a binary freeimage library present on the system and ctypes.
> 
> Major changes from 1.2.0:
>  New convertToPil function:
>   i = FreeImagePy.Image("myImage.ext")
>   pil = i.convetToPil()
>  Some bugs solved
> 
> Michele Petrazzo

Knowing some details about PIL and as good as no details about 
FreeImage, I would like in this context to become enlightened by the 
answer to the question, when does it make sense to use FreeImage instead 
of PIL?
 From what I know up to now I can't see any use for FreeImage :-( .

Claudio