On 9 Mar 2012, Darrell Anderson said:

> The GNU Image Finding Tool (GIFT) package has not been updated in 7
> years. I searched the web and seems that almost nobody packages that
> tool anymore. The only one I found was in the Debian repository split
> into several packages.

It appears to have been a classic academic project: a really nifty idea,
abandoned as soon as the funding ran out / everyone graduated. It was
thrown out to the world but never acquired enough of a developer base to
keep it alive :( probably in large part because it is so bloody hard to
build.

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