[Cuis] Current state of activity

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Euan,

On 11/8/2015 1:18 PM, Euan Mee wrote:
> Hi, I'm a newcomer to Cuis.

Welcome!

> The main web-site was last updated in July 2013
>
> How active is CUIS atm.?

Quite. See 
https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/graphs/contributors 
. Mail lista rchives are at 
http://forum.world.st/Cuis-Smalltalk-f4632260.html .

> Is it fair to characterise CUIS as a minimalist image for running on
> top of the current latest Squeak VMs  e.g. Cog with Spur (and with the
> Scorch and Sista upgrades once they are out?)

Yes. In any case, see 
https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/blob/master/Documentation/GettingStarted-UsingGitAndCommandline.md 
and sibling files .

> I'm looking to build Smalltalk apps to control, manage, set up and
> distribute multi-platform mobile web-apps.
>
> So what I'm looking for is a Smalltalk development environment and
> development management environment
> an http server and an https server
> a multi-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS) desktop GUI environment and
> desktop GUI apps
> a web framework
>
> My ideal is a central desktop GUI app that can run from a Raspberry Pi
> which is also running a webserver which hands out JS apps securely to
> mobile devices.

Interesting! Please keep us posted.

> I'm happy to with development work, or help backport necessary items
> from Squeak/Pharo
>

Great. As you progress, you'll find out about stuff you need to develop 
or port to Cuis. Contributions to the base image, or optional packages 
are all welcome (please remember that to be added to the main GitHub 
Cuis repo, all code needs to be MIT). Besides, here on the mail list, 
you can discuss any issues, ask for opinions or advice, or for existing 
code, etc.

> Cheers,
>       EuanM

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich