On 2013-02-08 03:06:00 +0000, Matthias Klose said:
python-imaging packages for both Python2 and Python3 are now available
in Ubuntu
raring (which will become 13.04), and are expected in Debian
experimental soon. See
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-imaging
- http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-imaging.html
Now, every package using python-imaging either fails to build, or fails to run,
because Pillow was converted to an egg. Maybe not a bad idea, however it does
break ~100 packages.
I'm not sure if "Pillow was converted to an egg" is an accurate
description of the problem. To me, converting to egg is synonomous with
"from setuptools import setup" (vs. from distutils import setup) which
is a change that happened in Pillow. But there were other changes like
removing "PIL.pth" which I think is what is actually responsible for
the inability to do:
import Image
This was intentional.
So the idea which Barry and I came up with, was to ship a
PILcompat.pth, and a directory with the "old" toplevel PIL modules, just
importing from PIL, e.g. PILcompat/Image.py:
from PIL import Image
at least for all modules mentioned in the module reference (you can't add PIL
directly to the .pth file, because relative imports break). From my point of
view this should be shipped and installed by default in Pillow, when built for
Python2. I think it's not necessary to do that for Python3, as the old PIL
doesn't support Python3 anyway.
That sounds like reverting one of the major changes facilitated by the
fork, which I don't think is likely to happen. If you can do:
import Image
you are using PIL, not Pillow.
For the details see https://launchpad.net/bugs/1112496
Thanks for the update. Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.
Matthias
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