[Zope] - Re: Name clashes (PIL vs Zope)...

[Paul Everitt]

Fredrik wrote:
> then you're on your own...

What an unfortunate response.
 
> PIL is used in hundreds of products, is featured in an upcoming book,
> and was out there long before Zope (and long before there was some-
> thing called packages).  No way the interface gonna change as long
> the version number is <= 2.0.

You must be very proud of PIL.  Note that Zope is used in hundreds of
sites, is featured in *two* upcoming books, I don't know when you became
such a history buff of Zope but Image.py has been around about a year
and a half, and also existed before packages (we previously used a
hacked ni).

> why not fix Zope instead?

I didn't realize Zope was broken.  But since you asked, because it would
break every single object database out there, as the pickles record the
module name.

> (if you teach Zope to actually use 
> PIL, it'll
> recognize dozens of image file formats -- see htmlgen for an example
> on how to do that).

I'd love to use PIL.  I'd like it even more if the PIL community was
less antagonistic.

--Paul