I was pleased to learn that the Python Imaging Library (PIL) has a modernized fork called Pillow. From the Pillow site:
The fork authors’ goal is to foster active development of PIL through:
- Continuous integration testing via Travis CI
- Publicized development activity on GitHub
- Regular releases to the Python Package Index
This is great news for me, because there are several projects (this site included) that use PIL, and I have been worried about its future. In addition to the infrequent PIL releases, the lack of Python 3 support in PIL was starting to be a real drag...and it was the main thing that kept some of us on Python 2.7.
So yeah, it's nice to have a path forward...time to embrace the fork and move on. I will miss the PIL acronym.