2009/3/27 Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>:
> 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.
>
Wow.. what a surprise :)

A note in 'About Cuis' states:
[[
The first outcome of that team splitting of Morphic in several
packages. As the Squeak community wasn't willing to start dropping
complexity (and functionality), we decided to maintain our own image.
]]

I think this is not the case today. I'm always thinking that splitting
Morphic onto separate parts would be best way towards modularity.

I like to see that browser in Cuis image feels much more responsible
comparing to OB. Maybe its not as complex as OB, but wery neat :) It
shows that GUI can be made fast in squeak, if people care about it :)

Also, i noticed all Morph classes are prepended with 'Old'.. which
means , obviously, that there should be something 'New' ?
I seen a LightWidgets code, but not see how to run/use it (examples
are empty). is it ready for use, or its still under work?

> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>
>


-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.