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

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Sat Mar 28 12:04:47 UTC 2009


Andreas Raab wrote:
> 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
Thanks, Andreas!

I started from 3.7, before 3.8 existed. There are two kinds of work here.

First is stuff removal and cleanup. I think it is not worth to apply 
this effort (a huge one) to a different image. I believe that efforts 
for true Squeak kernel image would benefit a lot if they start from Cuis.

Second is a lot of smaller goodies and refactoring. This stuff could be 
useful for other images. I have the work of the last year in this image 
as over 150 small change sets. (They also include stuff from Mantis and 
squeak-dev). I need to make these available and document them. I'll be 
doing this during the next weeks.

I hope all this is of use for the official Squeak release. Not sure how. 
I guess the board needs to come with a "where is Squeak headed", so we 
know how to help.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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