Re: ANN: FreeImagePy 1.2.2

2006-02-19 Thread Uwe Grauer
Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: 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

Re: ANN: FreeImagePy 1.2.2

2006-02-19 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Uwe Grauer wrote: Did you read the PIL licence? Seems to be a more free licence than GPL. footnote: PIL's using the old Python license, which is also known as the Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/historical.php /F --

Re: ANN: FreeImagePy 1.2.2

2006-02-19 Thread Terry Hancock
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:34:18 -0500 Andrew Gwozdziewycz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

ANN: FreeImagePy 1.2.2

2006-02-16 Thread Michele Petrazzo
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

Re: ANN: FreeImagePy 1.2.2

2006-02-16 Thread 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

Re: ANN: FreeImagePy 1.2.2

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
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 :-( . both

Re: ANN: FreeImagePy 1.2.2

2006-02-16 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
eg.: .dds (compressed texture file format) widely used in 3d games but not accessible in pil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: FreeImagePy 1.2.2

2006-02-16 Thread Michele Petrazzo
Claudio Grondi wrote: 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? Into some little environments, like tiff with G3/G4