Recently I have been playing with Google App Engine - I'm porting the Sydney Inline Hockey website from PHP (ugh!) to Google App Engine using Python.
Anyway, in order to use the google image library to manipulate images in App Engine, you need to have Python Image Library installed locally if you want to test your code.
Python's easy_install module maged to install PIL, however at runtime it would crash with an error about no jpeg decoder. No jpeg support was a bit of a dealbreaker... it seems libjpeg needs to be installed before PIL.
That's cool - lets just install libjpeg using fink, which seems to be one of a myriad of different tools for installing package on unix systems. But I didn't have fink installed...
after much yak shaving, I was finally able to to type:
sudo fink install libjpeg
sudo easy_install PIL
and it was all good!
For detailed instructions - see this post on Marcio Garcia's blog. Thanks Marcio!
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