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

Hernan Wilkinson hernan.wilkinson at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 12:34:59 UTC 2009


besides cleaning up Morph a little bit, did you do something else to make
the UI run faster?

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Hernan Wilkinson <
hernan.wilkinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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