It didn&#x27;t install cleanly with plone, so Alex Clark forked it to clean that up and make it work with pip and the other setuptools. Python 3 compatibility was added for pillow 2, and since then it&#x27;s been a steady stream of additions and bug fixes.<p>(I&#x27;m one of the maintainers of pillow, but I hadn&#x27;t seen the smid fork before.)