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Dear all,</div>
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First I would like to say a big big thank you for the amazing work you put into Cuis. I think it is one of the best development platforms I had the pleasure of working with (it's closest competitor being only the original Smalltalk-80 environment
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To quote C.A.R Hoare, "Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors."</div>
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In the last few years I have developed several non trivial applications on top of Cuis and Pharo: A parser generator and IDE, an educational environment for studying Turing machines, a compiler and IDE for a parallel programming language for Arduino boards,
an educational math game, and others. <br>
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So my interest in Cuis is more as a development platform. And I think that ultimately this is what we all want. That more and more people will use Cuis to develop their systems.
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However, at the moment (correct me if I'm wrong), there is no stable distribution that one can base their application development on. I can clone the latest repository and packages, and freeze a snapshot, but once development moves on I cannot simply update
my system to the latest version, because bug fixes, new features, and incompatible changes are mixed in the same development stream.
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What I think would be very helpful is to have a stable distribution of the core and associated packages that would only change to fix bugs without affecting the interfaces. </div>
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I am more than willing to contribute my time to develop this concept, and I have a few ideas about how to do this, but I hope that I can find other people that think this is important and are interested in cooperating on this.
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What do you think? is this worthwhile? what would be a good way to proceed?</div>
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Cheers,</div>
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David<br>
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