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

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Sat Mar 28 03:04:41 UTC 2009


My pleasure, Leandro!

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

Leandro wrote:
> Thank you Juan!
>
> /Leandro
>
>
> 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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