[Setup] _imaging.so not found

[Alex Clark]

On 1/21/11 11:35 PM, rbrewer wrote:
> --On January 12, 2011 2:57:56 AM -0800 "Stefan Lange [via Plone]"
> <[hidden email] </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5950160&i=0>> wrote:
>
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I've found a solution to this issue: you have to install a newer PIL
>  > version.
>  >
>  > Grab it from here:
>  > http://effbot.org/downloads/Imaging-1.1.7.tar.gz
>  >
>  > Then install it so that your instance can use it.
>  > Now you have to take care that the PIL egg (that came with the Plone
>  > Installer) will no longer be used. Just remove (or comment) the
>  > corresponding entry in the zinstance/bin/instance file.
>
> I'd rather install any new PIL version inside the Python instance provided
> by Plone, rather than use the system python. Are there any step-by-step
> instructions on how to make buildout download & use a newer version of a
> package? My exploratory attempts to modify the buildout.cfg file did not
> succeed.
>
> While I would like to resolve this problem swiftly, I also want to leave
> things in a maintainable state, so when I upgrade to the next Plone
> version, things don't break again.

Check out Pillow ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/1.6 ); it's a fork 
of PIL 1.1.7 that I have created and am offering to support for the 
Plone community for the foreseeable future.



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