Re: PIL/python-imaging becomes a python package and gets Python3 support

2013-02-10 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Matthias Klose , 2013-02-10, 17:54: Fixes should be easy and made in a way that works with both the old PIL modules and the new Pillow egg/package: import Image should become try: from PIL import Image except ImportError: import Image Why is the "import Image" fallback necessary?

PIL/python-imaging becomes a python package and gets Python3 support

2013-02-10 Thread Matthias Klose
[ targeted for jessie, not for wheezy ] PIL/python-imaging didn't see any updates for a long time; this did now change with the "PIL friendly" Pillow fork, introducing support for Python3. Pillow is now installed as a python package, not using the PIL approach anymore to install many toplevel mod