> It's possible I had an old version, but I was trying to do super basic things with PIL on 14.04 LTS; literally just cropping a JPEG and things were failing.

> It's possible I had an old version, but I was trying to do super basic things with PIL on 14.04 LTS; literally just cropping a JPEG and things were failing. It sounds to me that you hit some kind of straightforward bug then, rather than some systemic issue.