> Thanks for your question! I have posted the announcement of the Styled Text > Editor to the Pharo list as well because I still have not given up on the > idea to port it to Squeak and Pharo. It is not straightforward but I consider > it possible. > > Currently the Styled Text Editor is an external package which is loaded on > top of Cuis 4.0. The API it uses is quite specific to Cuis so to port it > alone is probably too much effort. What I think can be done is the following: > Split Cuis into three parts, > a) the parts which are not needed for Styled Text Editor, like the Cuis tools > b) the parts of Cuis Morphic the Styled Text Editor depends on – this is in > my opinion the most valuable part of Cuis because Juan spent years cleaning it > c) the Smalltalk kernel below
good idea > The idea is to port only part b) and the Styled Text Editor. And it has to be > done automatically by a tool which creates packages for Squeak and Pharo, > always from the latest code base. In addition you will probably need small > Cuis portability packages done manually, one for Squeak and one for Pharo. > > Being able to always load the latest code base of Styled Text Editor and Cuis > Morphic as an external package in Pharo is a prerequisite to look into > possibilities of sharing more of the code. > > I plan to write a more detailed proposal and then to approach ESUG and ask > for support for the funding. Any ideas for other sources of funding are > highly welcome and could speed things up considerably, of course! ;-) > > I for one have not given up on the idea that it might be possible to develop > substantial components as you called it – thank you for that as well – in a > more Squeak-dialect-independent way. ;-)
