Cookiecutter for new bob projects

Edited bdt new to use the cookiecutter format.

Fixes #104 (closed).

assigned to @ydayer

There is a remaining choice to discuss:

Do we follow the cookiecutter "mindset" to have a repository for each template (e.g. bob/bob.cookiecutter containing only the template)?

or do we go with the approach implemented here (a folder inside bob.devtools)? This prevents having yet another package.

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Frankly, I think that should be the default in our decisions - just use the tool and avoid circumventions and wrappers. It reduces maintenance and improves functionality encapsulation.

I personally dislike what we did with many of the bdt dev commands, wrapping git and pip in ways that replicate their functionality with new clothing, without substantial contribution as with bdt dev create/bdt create. This behaviour also goes against the unix mindset of encapsulation, that made it successful.

With this in mind, I'd move this template to a new subproject. I'd then write instructions in the user guide here on how to use cookiecutter to achieve this. I'd also include cookiecutter as a dependence of bob.devtools so that bdt installations have that by default. I'd not call the template bob.cookiecutter, but rather something meaningful like bob/new-project or the such. De-branding should start somewhere... I hope that makes sense

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• 48a9668a - Moved the cookiecutter to its own Gitlab project.

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• 956cf72a - [deps] Add cookiecutter to the pinned dependencies
• 35e353fd - Set no_input for bdt new, prevents waiting in CI.
• b7fb64c9 - Moved the cookiecutter to its own Gitlab project.

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@ydayer: shall we close this?

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