[holyjaw]

I tried to install PIL the other day via `pip` I believe, and a warning appeared basically saying PIL is not being maintained (is dead), use an alternative.

[stevejohnson]

PIL has never worked with pip, but you can still install it using the instructions on their web site.

pillow works fine with pip.

[truncate]

I'm curious what problems you faced with PIL on Pip. I never tried installing it before today at work on Travis using Pip. Despite of all system libraries (jpeg-dev, zlib-dev) installed it would complain about libraries not being present and compiled without png/jpeg... support.

[uolot]

If you're on Ubuntu, running "apt-get build-dep python-imaging" should fix those problems (or it did for me in the past).