[squeak-dev] [Ann] Cuis: A new Squeak distribution
Edgar J. De Cleene
edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar
Sat Mar 28 10:04:19 UTC 2009
On 3/27/09 8:15 PM, "Igor Stasenko" <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Yes!!!! And have all your work as inspirational.
> I think this is not the case today. I'm always thinking that splitting
> Morphic onto separate parts would be best way towards modularity.
My own fork take a different path to modularity and can load everything
back, but I don't have feedback for improve it.
Edgar
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