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

Hernan Wilkinson hernan.wilkinson at gmail.com
Mon Mar 30 20:55:18 UTC 2009


Hi Juan, great work! a friend just told me and I could not wait to try
it.... it flies!!!

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> 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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