On 27 févr. 2013, at 21:40, Marijonas Petrauskas <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why isn't Pillow the recommended Django image library yet? PIL has
> been unmaintained for almost 3 years and has a number of annoying bugs
> (e.g. fails to open some valid JPEG files, maybe has some security
> issues as well). Pillow, on the other hand, is a backwards-compatible
> community-maintained fork, which has most of those issues fixed and
> will even support Python 3 soon.
> 
> I think this change would involve (1) running the test suite with
> Pillow, (2) updating the documentation and (3) updating the ImageField
> warning shown when PIL is not installed. Looks like an easy change.
> What do you think?


Yes, we'll have to choose a Python 3-compatible replacement for PIL.

I've converted your email into a ticket: 
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/19934

I assume that Pillow and PIL are API-compatible. Django could fallback to PIL
if Pillow isn't installed, to preserve backwards compatibility.

-- 
Aymeric.



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