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fetch-configlet: DRY/sync with version in configlet repo

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, shell
Domain
ci-cd

Research direction

Start by locating the fetch-configlet script and comparing its behavior with the exercism/configlet release flow shown in the issue. Determine whether syncing the version or adopting the gh-only approach is the intended direction; done means the script has parity with the configlet repository and still downloads and extracts the required archive in GitHub Actions.

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Description

Or reach feature parity with it.

For the fetch-configlet script in this repo, which is designed to be used only in the GitHub Actions environment, we could also consider a gh-only implementation like:

name='configlet.tar.gz'
gh -R exercism/configlet release download --output "${name}" \
  --pattern 'configlet_*_linux_x86-64.tar.gz'
tar xzf "${name}" -C bin/
rm "${name}"
Dominant language
Shell
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8
Forks
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Avg merge
3h 44m
Merged PRs (30d)
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