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diff --git a/python/pillowfight/README b/python/pillowfight/README index 80173c8d32..598342a8c8 100644 --- a/python/pillowfight/README +++ b/python/pillowfight/README @@ -1,14 +1,15 @@ 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. +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 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. +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. |