[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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