mirror of
https://github.com/Ponce/slackbuilds
synced 2024-11-26 22:06:35 +01:00
14 lines
815 B
Text
14 lines
815 B
Text
Pillow is a replacement for PIL that works as a drop-in replacement.
|
|
Unlike PIL, it's actively maintained and easy to install. It's pretty great.
|
|
There's only one problem, which is that users must first uninstall PIL before
|
|
installing Pillow, as they share a namespace.
|
|
|
|
This makes it very hard for Python modules or products that need to run on a
|
|
variety of configurations to easily depend on either PIL or Pillow without
|
|
inevitably breaking something (perhaps in subtle ways). That makes it hard to
|
|
safely transition.
|
|
|
|
This package aims to "solve" that by providing a single dependency that can
|
|
intelligently depend on either PIL or Pillow, based on what's already on the
|
|
system. Packages that still need to work if PIL is installed, but aim to
|
|
transition to Pillow, can simply depend on the pillowfight package.
|