[squeak-dev] [Ann] Cuis: A new Squeak distribution
Juan Vuletich
juan at jvuletich.org
Tue Mar 31 13:12:05 UTC 2009
Hernan Wilkinson wrote:
> besides cleaning up Morph a little bit, did you do something else to
> make the UI run faster?
>
Not sure. I removed and cleaned stuff everywhere, so it's hard to say
what had impact on UI performance and what didn't.
Cheers,
Juan Vuletich
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Hernan Wilkinson
> <hernan.wilkinson at gmail.com <mailto: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
> <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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