[arch-dev-public] giFT (was: Third list of removal candidates)

[Dan McGee]

On Nov 29, 2007 2:30 PM, K. Piche <kpiche at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 14:09 +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> > 2007/11/27, Eric Belanger <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca>:
> > >
>
> > [skipping gnome packages that Jan answered about]
> >
> > > evms    Description: Enterprise Volume Management System
> > I don't know who uses it but it's kinda important package.
> >
> > > giftoxic        Description: A GTK frontend for the giFT daemon
> > It's from 2003. giFT and OpenFT are from 2004 and 2005. Oldies... :-)
>
>
> I won't cry if we drop the gift set of packages.  No updates in years.

Does anyone know why this project stopped development? I installed it
the other day, gave it a try, and was astounded to see it hasn't been
updated in forever. Seems like a good concept but maybe bittorrent
just grew too strong.

-Dan