[Image-SIG] How to get 1.1.3 on MacOS X?

[Jack Jansen]

On Monday, August 5, 2002, at 01:44 , David Eppstein wrote:

> I am currently using PIL 1.1.2 under MacPython (with a W user 
> interface) to make web photo albums but am very frustrated with the 
> lack of antialiasing when downsampling -- using smoothing instead 
> results in very soft images. The new ANTIALIAS filter in 1.1.3 looks to 
> be the perfect cure for this problem, and I'm hoping it will also fix 
> the warnings I've been getting about obsolete regexp packages.  But, 
> the only distribution I've seen of 1.1.3 is the source.  Is it possible 
> to get this working under MacPython without a recent version of 
> CodeWarrior (I do have a very old CW and a recent gcc), and is there 
> information available somewhere on how to do this, or is there a 
> compiled version available anywhere?

David,
if I find the time I'll try to upgrade pil to 1.1.3 for the next (2.3) 
MacPython release. But that could be a while off...
>
> Failing that, is there another OS X Python version I should be using, 
> and if so what's involved in setting it up and creating GUI-based 
> standalone applications with it?

If you use OSX unix-Python (a.k.a. MachoPython) there should be no 
problem building pil from source yourself (assuming you have the OSX 
developer tools). But: if you want a fully functional W you'll probably 
have to build Python from the CVS sources (or, again, wait for 2.3).
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