[Framework-Team] Re: hard dependency on PIL?

[Martin Aspeli]

Vincenzo Di Somma wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm pretty sure most of the people who deploy plone for production will
> not have many problems with an hard dependency on PIL.
> 
> I'm a bit concerned about the new users who download the plone installer
> for MS platforms.
> At the moment it is very easy for them to install plone and play a bit
> with the system, will the dependency on PIL complicate the installation
> process?
> Will they be forced to download and install a package they don't know at
> all ? Or we'll include PIL in the windows distribution ?
> Thanks,

I believe the installers already package PIL, so they wouldn't have to 
worry.

I think a dependency is probably OK, even though it would annoy me to 
have to do it for all development instances. The swinger for me is the 
recent security problems that we've had to use PIL to get around.

Martin