exercism CLI have its own directory and not install its top level directory in the ~/bin directory

[vonHabsi]

When the exercism archive is extracted it places some of its directories in the ~/bin directory which in my view is a bad design. It may overwrite other directories and it is also difficult to tell which files and directories belong to exercism when it has to be moved elsewhere or uninstalled.

It is better to install it in ~/bin/exercism and the user told to add ~/bin/exercism to the $PATH.

If something has to go into the ~/bin directory then it should only be a command to change the $PATH if it is not already there, or create an environment like python's virtualenv

[NobbZ]

To avoid overwriting we usually recommend to extract in the download folder (I do though think as well, that we shouldn't have the archive contents flat but suggest a folder as well, "tarbomb").

Also in my opinion one should avoid adding more and more single binary folders to the PATH, as it will increase the overall search time for executables.

And I don't really get your last statement… Using ~/bin for "user local" installation of single executable programs and scripts is quite a common practice throughout the linux community…

[ekingery]

This seems more-or-less resolved and/or not actionable. Particularly considering that using the snap package is the preferred installation method now for linux. I think it can be closed, but please do re-open if I am mistaken.