solarposition dataengine moved to kdereview

[Petri Damstén]

On Tuesday 07 April 2009 03:09:22 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday 06 April 2009, Petri Damstén wrote:
> > On Monday 06 April 2009 18:27:35 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On Monday 06 April 2009, Petri Damstén wrote:
> > > > - In weather station to accurately detect if it's night or day.
> > >
> > >  would it make sense to add this to the time engine?
> >
> > Doesn't adding solar position calculation to time engine complicate it
> > too much?
>
> depends on how it's done, of course.
>
> if the solar sources started with "Solar:" then it would be easy to sort
> out which path to go, and if all the parsing was put into a helper class it
> would keep the TimeEngine class itself quite clean.
>
> the question is whether this is "time" data or not. if it is time data, it
> should go into the time engine. the user of a DataEngine should not really
> have to care about where data comes from but just the kind of information
> they are after.
>
> i'm quite fine with it being in a separate DataEngine, but was curious as
> to whether this is "time" information or something conceptually different.

I'll add this to feature plan for 4.3. I think moon phase and position would 
be nice here too.

Petri

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