Re: [trinity-devel] GNU Image Finding Tool

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.