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diff --git a/python/pillowfight/README b/python/pillowfight/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..80173c8d324f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/python/pillowfight/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Pillow is a replacement for PIL that works as a drop-in replacement. +Unlike PIL, it's actively maintained and easy to install. It's pretty great. +There's only one problem, which is that users must first uninstall PIL before +installing Pillow, as they share a namespace. + +This makes it very hard for Python modules or products that need to run on a +variety of configurations to easily depend on either PIL or Pillow without +inevitably breaking something (perhaps in subtle ways). That makes it hard to +safely transition. + +This package aims to "solve" that by providing a single dependency that can +intelligently depend on either PIL or Pillow, based on what's already on the +system. Packages that still need to work if PIL is installed, but aim to +transition to Pillow, can simply depend on the pillowfight package. |