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Re: Drop imaging support from reportlab



On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 08:40:40AM -0500, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> The reason is that the original fails if it is a dependency of a Python 2.7
> package.  It builds the ${PYTHON_VERSION_DEFAULT} version anyway. Since
> imaging is no longer maintained and Pillow is a plug and play replacement
> this seems like the simplest solution.

Pillow is not a full drop-in replacement, but it is might be beyond
caring at this point. A better way would be to just move the selection
to the end, e.g. ${PYPKGPREFIX}-{Pillow-[0-9]*,imaging-[0-9]*}.

Joerg


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