Hi John,
I'm not going to answer the use case question, since I'm not sure that any
good can come of answering it. :) If you want to provide your own answer to
the question, that's fine.
As for Wikibase, there's no shared code between Cargo between Wikibase; and
there's no relationship between them, other than both having in some sense
been inspired by SMW.
-Yaron
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:58 PM, John McClure <jmccl...@hypergrove.com>
wrote:
> Hello Yaron,
> Funny, but I've not seen any use case detailed for the Cargo extension.
> Eliminating (what is perceived) to be SMW's code complexity, is *not* a
> use case per se.
>
> *Use Case. ...* a list of steps, typically defining interactions between
> a role... and a system, to achieve a goal.
>
> So I think of two use cases for which Cargo is a candidate solution
>
> 1. An organization does /not/ want to install SMW, but wants to query
> structured wikipage content
> 2. An organizaton wants to interface separate SQL database
> applications, one being MW with structured content
>
> The first use case is not directly interesting to the SMW community
> -- although it IS of real interest that stable & supported Wikibase is not
> ever noted as a competitive solution
> -- and why/whether Wikibase query printers (or any other modules) have any
> relationship to Cargo
>
> The second use case gets to headaches with silo-ed systems, that is,
> systems not sharing a common repository
> -- enter data to system A, a/synchronously update system B, and vice versa
> -- change system A data stored in system B, a/synchronously update system
> A, and vice versa
>
> It's the "a/synchronously update..." part that is a hair-pulling pain in
> the arse for IT depts, right?
> therefore
> ---> Cargo creates & maintains a common repository between otherwise
> silo-ed applications
>
> So, is this a (or, the /only/) use case for Cargo being installed
> alongside SMW?
> And, please, is there a relationship between Cargo & Wikibase?
>
> thanks for comments/john
>
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