Massimo is right with his arguments agaimst inclusion. The next would
come and would like to have NumPy or some other big Package included.
Let's keep the binary package reasonably small, and not create a
monster which would be hard to maintain.
Markus
Follow these to manual install PIL:
PIL - http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
freetype - http://www.freetype.org/
jpegsrc - http://www.ijg.org/
libpng - http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
Install libpng:
1. tar -jxf libpng-1.2.16.tar.bz2
2. cd libpng-1.2.16
3. ./configure
4. make install
Install jpegsrc:
1. tar -zxf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
2. cd jpeg-6b'
3. ./configure
4. make install
5. make install-lib
Install freetype (optional):
1. tar -jxf freetype-2.3.1.tar.bz2
2. cd freetype-2.3.1
3. ./configure
4. make install
Install PIL:
1. tar -zxf Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz
2. cd Imaging-1.1.6
3. python setup.py build
4. Should get this output
--------------------------------------------------------------------
--- TKINTER support ok
--- JPEG support ok
--- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support ok
--- FREETYPE2 support ok
--------------------------------------------------------------------
5. now run: python setup.py install
-wj