exercism/cli

Idea: Download a whole track instead of one exercise at a time

BrunoWilkinson opened this issue · 4 comments

BrunoWilkinson commented

Idea

A download comes with a test suite and readme, so technically you can code offline and still manage to practice, my idea was what if you were about to leave for a long trip (even so it unlikely at the moment) you could download a whole track for a language and have all exercises with one command.

Side Note

Let me know if this technically possible. If so can I lend a hand with this request.
This is not urgent, mostly a nice to have 😄

anthonygedeon commented

This really sounds interesting! If this feature gets approved, I'll like to work on this

BrunoWilkinson commented

@anthonygedeon maybe start a draft PR ?

Here should be a go place to start (code wise): https://github.com/exercism/cli/blob/main/cmd/download.go

Ideally the cmd will look like this (my opinion):

exercism download --exercise=all --track=go

And it should download all the exercises for that track.

I'm not a maintainer, nor did I contribute to this repo (just a random dev passing through 😄), it will be great if we have an opinion of a maintainer, to understand better the limitation and scope as well.

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sullyj3 commented

Dupe of #718 ?

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SleeplessByte commented

@sullyj3 is right!

Please continue there :)