[Marble-devel] Review Request: provide nodeType information for downcasting

[Jens-Michael Hoffmann]

Am Monday 27 July 2009 10:03:19 schrieb Andrew Manson:
> Well at this case I think that this is mainly a case of just working with what 
> we have. It may not be the optimal solution but because of the decisions that 
> we have already made regarding the architecture of the data in marble this is 
> a necessary evil. 
> 
> do you agree? 

at this point we seem to have no other choice, so yes, I agree.

But I also would like to say that I honestly believe we should think about how to do this stuff better.
There is a risc that it will become harder and harder to maintain it.

> 
> On Sunday 26 July 2009 12:07:51 Jens-Michael Hoffmann wrote:
> > I'm not against applying this patch, but I think we should know that we are
> > doing something which is conceptually wrong (imho) and we should know why
> > we do it.