[squeak-dev] [Ann] Cuis: A new Squeak distribution
Juan Vuletich
juan at jvuletich.org
Tue Mar 31 13:10:41 UTC 2009
Hernan Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi Juan,
> great work! a friend just told me and I could not wait to try it....
> it flies!!!
>
Thanks, Hernán!
Would you consider it for teaching Smalltalk at the University?
Cheers,
Juan Vuletich
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org
> <mailto: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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