asset convertor on Mac

[Dean]

I'm trying to get gd3asset to run on current macOS (10.13.5) and haven't found a recipe that works for me.
This has come up once or twice in the past, but the wisdom I could find in those threads doesn't seem to work these days.

I've got Python 2.7 installed (default OS component), and the gd2 library installation goes fine:
$ python --version
Python 2.7.10
$ sudo easy_install -U gameduino2
Searching for gameduino2
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/gameduino2/
Best match: gameduino2 0.2.4
Processing gameduino2-0.2.4-py2.7.egg
gameduino2 0.2.4 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
Installing gd3asset script to /usr/local/bin
Installing gd2asset script to /usr/local/bin

Using /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/gameduino2-0.2.4-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for gameduino2
Finished processing dependencies for gameduino2
I can then run gd3asset, but am told I don't have PIL installed "ImportError: No module named Image"
$ gd3asset
… snip …
ImportError: No module named Image

So I go to install PIL, but I can't find a current distro of it:
$ sudo pip install PIL
Collecting PIL
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement PIL (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for PIL
I then install Pillow instead:
$ sudo pip install pillow
… snip …
Successfully installed pillow-5.1.0

But I still get the "No module named Image" error trying to run gd3asset.

So how can I get a valid installation of the Image package?
Is it actually installed but this is a search path type issue?
Do I need to go dig for an old distro of PIL?  Any particular version?

Thanks!

[Dean]

Superficially, it looks like this is a case issue:
Pillow seems to provide "image" while the gd2 library is looking for "Image"

$ pip freeze
…
gameduino2==0.2.4
image==1.5.24
…
So I guess I'll go figure out how to extract everything from the egg and change all instances of "import Image" to "import image as Image".  I'm new to Python, so this is just a shot in the dark informed by some googling and experimenting - if I'm on the wrong track, or if there is an easier way to do this (package alias?) please reply.

Thanks!

[EDIT] After I posted this, I realized that extracting the egg to hack at the project was silly since the source is already on GitHub. [/EDIT]

[Dean]

I now have gd3asset running on my Mac, but I had to hack the gameduino2 library such that all instances of "import Image" (and similar) are now "from PIL import Image".

Running "go" results in:
Assets report
-------------
Header file:    default_assets.h
GD2 RAM used:   115488
Output file:    xxx
File size:      29759
which is slightly different from what the README says to expect:
Assets report
-------------
Header file:    default_assets.h
GD2 RAM used:   115104
Output file:    xxx
File size:      29664
These sizes seem reasonably close, so I'll press on with a simple project to see if it is actually working.

[EDIT] I can now confirm it is working (at least for RGB332, L4, and L1 formats).  I've opened an Issue on the repo to track this. [/EDIT]