[squeak-dev] [Ann] Cuis: A new Squeak distribution

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Fri Mar 27 20:16:07 UTC 2009


Hi Folks,

I'm pleased to announce that Cuis is available. Cuis is a Squeak 
distribution with emphasis on simplicity. You can download it from 
http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Cuis1.0-0158.zip . The web is not done yet.

Some of the main ideas and objectives for Cuis are:

- Aimed at Smalltalk developers and people learning about Smalltalk
- Close to Smalltalk-80 and Dan Ingalls' ideas
- Compatible with the latest Squeak VMs
- MIT license (based on the work by Yoshiki Ohshima, from VPRI)
- Evolution by removing unnecessary complexity, not adding it
- Reduced Morphic
- No MVC or Etoys
- No M17N, Traits, Monticello, Omnibrowser, TTFonts, FreeType
- Includes support for building VM plugins, but not for building the VM
- Includes a set of high quality, antialiased StrikeFonts
- Backwards compatibility not important
- Include code from the Squeak project (various versions, Mantis, 
squak-dev, etc)

Cuis is under MIT license. It is the result of several years of cleanup, 
and it is currently being used in one commercial project. It is small 
and fast, and good for dev and learning. Besides PCs, it also runs great 
on older machines, PDAs and embedded devices.

I hope you like it.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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