The Future of mySTEP?

[Alex Perez]

Dr. Nikolaus,

On 19 Oct 2004, Dr. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:

> Adrian Robert <arobert@cogsci.ucsd.edu> wrote in message 
> news:<mailman.3836.1098113403.2017.discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>...
> > I like the sound of this, but it also must be said that implementing a 
> > fully standards-compliant XML parser with good performance is not a 
> 
> I have now made a first speed test (but not a compare since I don't
> have libxml2) on a Sharp Zaurus 400MHz ARM: needs approx. 4 seconds
> (after read from disk) to parse and convert a 110kByte XML .plist file
> with 4700 lines (and approx. 9000 tags) into a NSDictionary. So this
> ends up in parse speed of less than 400us per tag.

This is somewhat unrelated but I am curious to find out your position 
regardless...Sharp has recently (a few days ago) announced that it plans 
to pull the Zaurus line from the USA market. See 
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/5438.html for more details. The 
announcement says nothing of the European market. I'm just wondering what 
the future of mySTEP is in light of this most recent development.. It's a 
shame Sharp has decided to yank these devices from the market, but hey, if 
they don't sell, they don't sell... :( I've never used mySTEP but it looks 
pretty cool from the shots I've seen of it.

Anyways, I was merely interseted in what your long-term plans are.