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

Adrian Lienhard adi at netstyle.ch
Tue Mar 31 13:57:09 UTC 2009


On Mar 31, 2009, at 15:12 , Juan Vuletich wrote:

> 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.

Hi Juan,

Did you create changesets or MC packages so that your cleanups could  
be reused (e.g., in Pharo or Squeak)?

Adrian

>
>
> 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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