{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/imageio/imageio/issues/114","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/imageio/imageio","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/imageio/imageio/issues/114/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/imageio/imageio/issues/114/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/imageio/imageio/issues/114/events","html_url":"https://github.com/imageio/imageio/issues/114","id":98030247,"number":114,"title":"Alternatives for FreeImage","user":{"login":"almarklein","id":3015475,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3015475?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein","html_url":"https://github.com/almarklein","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/imageio/imageio/labels/plugin:%20freeimage","name":"plugin: freeimage","color":"c7def8"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/imageio/imageio/labels/type:%20question","name":"type: question","color":"cc317c"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":23,"created_at":"2015-07-29T21:11:38Z","updated_at":"2016-09-19T09:50:44Z","closed_at":null,"body":"FreeImage is maintained by a small group of devs, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but they are on sourceforge with CVS for version control. On [people asking]( http://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/discussion/36111/thread/f2fae857/ ) them to move to Github, so they can have CI, more contributors, etc. they seem to fail to see the advantage.\r\n\r\nThis is slightly worrisome, and we should keep an eye out for alternatives, thus this issue.\r\n\r\n* Nathanael Jones keeps a clone of freeimage. They have not changed code, but added CI: https://github.com/imazen/freeimage\r\n* There's several other Freeimage clones on GH, but most seem to have changed the code.\r\n* There is https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio\r\n* We could ctypes into libjpeg and libpng (#111)\r\n* Maybe  Luis' [imread](http://luispedro.org/software/imread/), which is C++, but maybe he can provide a C-api that we can talk to using ctypes.\r\n* Pillow\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/imageio/imageio/issues/comments/247951966","html_url":"https://github.com/imageio/imageio/issues/114#issuecomment-247951966","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/imageio/imageio/issues/114","id":247951966,"user":{"login":"almarklein","id":3015475,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3015475?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein","html_url":"https://github.com/almarklein","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/almarklein/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-09-19T09:50:44Z","updated_at":"2016-09-19T09:50:44Z","body":"I have not yet had a reply from the email that I sent in July. I just send a reminder. In the meantime I plan to work on a Pillow plugin in the coming weeks."}}
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