[Cuis] [Ann] Cuis 4.1 is released

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi David,

David T. Lewis wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 04:19:54PM -0300, juan at jvuletich.org wrote:
>   
>>> Extremely impressive Juan.  Congratulations.  Morphic3 is something
>>> that sounds worth breaking backward-compatibility in Squeak if it
>>> would ever possible to run there.
>>>       
>> Thanks Chris. I still need to work on M3 for several months before it is
>> usable. I hope to be able to release some alpha code sooner. In any case,
>> what you say opens many interesting questions. Cuis was forked just for
>> technical reasons (not social or personal), and I think it still is a
>> 'Squeak distribution'.
>>     
>
> To me, Cuis represents the best of Squeak: Elegant simplicity, high quality,
> and a sense of vision. While I personally spend most of my time with Squeak
> trunk, I really do appreciate Cuis.
>   

Thanks, David. I added your nice words to the Cuis web page. (I hope you 
don't mind!)

>> If there is enough interest in the Squeak community, the bigger issue is
>> how to deal with multiple distributions. Does Squeak need to support just
>> one distribution? Can it handle several? Or maybe there should not be an
>> 'official squeak', but a set of pieces from where anybody could build her
>> own, personalized Squeak?
>>     
>
> Good questions. And if we can do these things, we should also be able
> to do a better job of supporting and enabling Etoys, Scratch, and other
> 'distributions'. Ultimately perhaps Cuis may provide a better way of doing
> these things, as it seems to be inherently simpler and smaller than the
> 'official Squeak' itself.
>
> Dave
>   

This would be a dream come true.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

>> I don't have any answers. But I'm willing to think and discuss, to find
>> the best way, for people to have freedom to pick their own balance between
>> between compatibility, features,
>> evolutivity, etc. All this, enabling reuse and reducing duplication of
>> efforts...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Juan Vuletich
>>
>>