Templates in darwin?

The following discussion from !148 (merged) should be addressed:

• @paconnor started a discussion: (+2 comments)

  I wonder if this script, as well as the templates, shouldn't rather be part of Darwin.

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Adapting the template*.cc files is rather easy. The only difficulty would be to find CommonTools/interface/DASOption.h:

• https://gitlab.cern.ch/cms-analysis/general/DasAnalysisSystem/Core/-/blob/migration/CommonTools/test/templateEventLoop.cc#L11
• https://gitlab.cern.ch/cms-analysis/general/DasAnalysisSystem/Core/-/blob/migration/CommonTools/test/templateSimpleExec.cc#L13

Adapting the template script is a bit more involved, as there are explicit dependences in the CMake helper. I am not familiar enough with CMake to understand how easy it would be to generalise.

The CMake helper in turn does Core-specific magic, the most annoying one being linking CommonTools. This could be handled with a CMake variable set by the project with the list of libs to link. Another option is to always specify CommonTools manually.

I think the tests would always be wanted.

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