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

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sat Mar 28 03:31:53 UTC 2009


Hi Juan -

Congrats. This is pretty neat. What version of Squeak did you originally 
start from? I'm curious because I'm wondering how much of that work 
would be applicable to Squeak.org (perhaps in some smaller chunks).

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Juan Vuletich wrote:
> 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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