[Image-SIG] Pillow: the "unfriendly" fork?

[Russell E. Owen]

In article <kavn8b$e9f$1 at ger.gmane.org>, Alex Clark <aclark at aclark.net> 
wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I'm trying to mentally prepare for adding Python 3 support to Pillow 
> before PyCon 2013. To do so, I plan to review the work that has been 
> done here:
> 
> - https://github.com/fluggo/Pillow
> 
> Then merge and release.
> 
> 
> Until this point, we've been attempting to track changes via "upstream" 
> tickets in the hope that one day there'd be a new PIL release and we'd 
> stop Pillow development. However I now suspect that the more likely 
> scenario is that we will have to declare at some point that Pillow is 
> "the unfriendly PIL fork", meaning that we will not continue to track 
> changes in Pillow along with the "upstream" changes in PIL.
> 
> Does this sound reasonable? I think the "best" time to do this would be 
> with the addition of Python 3 support to Pillow, along with a 
> corresponding significant release number change e.g. "Pillow 2.0.0 (now 
> with Python 3 support)"
> 
> 
> Of course, we could consider Python 3 support as another change to 
> track upstream with PIL. But quite frankly, I'm tired of the additional 
> maintenance burden, and would now prefer to simply encourage bug fixes 
> and releases without the additional task of being "friendly" to PIL.
> 
> Thoughts?

I agree.

-- Russell