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

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Sat Mar 28 12:35:18 UTC 2009


Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>   
Thanks Edgar!

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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