[reportlab-users] pillow patch

[Claude Paroz]

Le 11.05.22 à 10:18, Robin Becker a écrit :
> On 08/05/2022 09:47, Claude Paroz wrote:
>> Le 28.02.22 à 13:55, Claude Paroz a écrit :
>>> Le 18.02.22 à 14:37, Claude Paroz a écrit :
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> As far as I can see, pillow is a required dependency of ReportLab, 
>>>> so the attached patch simplifies some parts of the code to account 
>>>> for that.
>>>> I also upped the pillow minimal version as versions before 9.0.0 
>>>> have known security vulnerabilities.
>>>
>>> Attached is the same patch rebased after another conflicting patch 
>>> was applied to main source tree.
>>
>> Is that patch still considered, or is it a bad idea?
>>
>> Claude
> 
> I tried the latst version of the patch and it applies cleanly to 
> reportlab. However, when I run our full tests I see this
> 
> 
>    File 
> "/home/robin/devel/reportlab/.py310/lib/python3.10/site-packages/svglib/svglib.py", 
> line 38, in <module>
>      from reportlab.lib.utils import haveImages
> ImportError: cannot import name 'haveImages' from 'reportlab.lib.utils' 
> (/home/robin/devel/reportlab/reportlab/lib/utils.py)
> !!!!! terminating early because of errors
> 
> so it seems that svglib has a reference directly to haveImages; I see 
> this in svglib 1.2.1.
> 
> If we are just assuming haveImages is true I can just add that to utils.py

Yes, I think we can keep haveImages and simply return True. Good catch!

For svglib, I created:
https://github.com/deeplook/svglib/pull/337

Claude
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