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 inst

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 -- http://mail.python.

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

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

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 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 fr

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

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 fro