Erik O Gabrielsson

Is there a reason for pillow-jpls not being an extra like pylibjpeg et al?

Sure, but if a user need to read Jpeg-LS it would be easy to install the extra. Pillow typically supports Jpeg and Jpeg 2000 without any extra packages.

Thanks for the clarification @CPBridge. I agree that optional dependencies can be messy and that you should consider making it optional if it looks like its no longer maintained.

I (too) made a [PR to pillow-jpls](https://github.com/planetmarshall/pillow-jpls/pull/24) for Python 3.12 and Pillow 10 support. Regarding reading mpressed transfer syntaxes other than standard jpeg and jpeg 2000, [wsidicom](https://github.com/imi-bigpicture/wsidicom/blob/main/wsidicom/codec/decoder.py) uses [imagecodecs](https://github.com/cgohlke/imagecodecs) for...

From what I understand, highdicom only uses pillow-jpls to enable encoding? Decoding can only be done if having the `libjpeg` extra with `pylibjpeg-libjpeg`. I did a quick test with: ```python...

> Thanks @erikogabrielsson . I had sort of hoped that pillow-jpls would come back to life and save us from having to work around this, but that is looking increasingly...