[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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