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

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Alec Mitchell wrote:
> It's not possible to start Plone if PIL is not installed currently
> (due to the member image fix).  PIL is included in all the installers
> AFAIK, and is a package in every distro I've known.  So installing PIL
> is generally as easy as installing python (whether you use your distro
> packages or sompile from source).  It can also be as easy as doing:
> 
> easy_install -f http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Imaging

That is actually not true: the success of that command is bound to be
highly dependant on the development packages of the various graphic
toolks you have installed.

Wichert.

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