On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Peter Chant < rempete...@cappetezilla.italsco.uk> wrote:
> Michiel Overtoom wrote: > > > Peter Chant wrote: > > > >> what's the most appropriate (maintained) graphics library to use? PIL > >> seems to have last been updated in 2006 > >> http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ > >> and GD seems to be even older. Don't want to go down a dead end. > > > > Contrary to organic material, software doesn't rot when it gets older. > > > > PIL is pretty complete for the task it was designed to do, pretty > > debugged during the past years, and pretty much 'finished' -- it doesn't > > need frequent updates anymore. > > > > Greetings, > > > > No, it does not. However, if PIL was updated last in 2006. Python in 2009 > has gone to version 3.1. If PIL is compatible with 3.1 then I'm fine. But > I don't want to have to stick with Python 2.5 as the rest of the world > moves on. > The rest of the world hasn't moved on yet. Most people are still using Python 2.6 and the 2.x series will continue to be actively developed for another couple years. > Pete > > > -- > http://www.petezilla.co.uk > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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