Cynthia, I have good news for you:

>From here: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html

   - Service for storing and serving large files

It's coming! We hear you.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Cynthia Kurtz <cfku...@cfkurtz.com> wrote:

> Sorry - to clarify - I wasn't talking about the imaging service, I was
> talking about the database limit. I had originally intended to have
> "attachments" to stories, which could include say PDF as well as audio
> and video and images. If there is a way to break up ANY binary data
> into 1MB chunks and get it in and out of the database cleanly, I'm all
> ears.
>
> On Nov 18, 5:51 pm, Cynthia Kurtz <cfku...@cfkurtz.com> wrote:
> > Another issue is, the 1MB limit is incompatible with audio and video
> > as well as just images. So it's not just an imaging library that is
> > needed, it's everything. I had planned to have people be able to
> > collect stories in audio format (say from old folks) and upload them
> > to my site (Rakontu) but given the 1MB limit that's pretty much out of
> > the question. That and the Timeouts and other gotchas make it hard to
> > create anything that approximates real social media on GAE. :( But
> > here's hoping it "grows up" over time. Moore's law is in our favor
> > here.
> >
> > On Nov 18, 11:03 am, Bjoern <bjoer...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > If you have a suggestion, I wouldn't mind trying it. I suspect few
> > > python imaging libraries would be pure python, though.
> >
> > > On Nov 17, 3:08 pm, Eli Jones <eli.jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > Isn't there another image library you could use to resize?
> >
> >
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