meta_package_manager.managers.zinit module

meta_package_manager.managers.zinit.zinit_source_path()

Locate the zinit.zsh file every invocation sources.

Falls back to the current installer’s location when none of the candidates exists, so the built command stays well-formed and simply fails to source, which is what makes the version probe double as Zinit’s presence check.

Return type:

Path

class meta_package_manager.managers.zinit.Zinit

Bases: PackageManager

Zinit is a flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager.

Zinit installs Zsh plugins, snippets and completions from GitHub and other forges, cloning each into $ZINIT[PLUGINS_DIR]. Packages are identified by the user/repo slug Zinit both reports and accepts, which is the id mpm keys them on. A plugin the user renamed through the id-as ice reports under that alias instead, and feeds back into every operation just the same.

Initialize cli_errors list.

operation_notes: ClassVar = {'installed': 'The inventory runs a full interactive shell startup, and may miss plugins deferred with the `wait` ice.', 'outdated': 'The only "what would change" command self-updates Zinit first, so it mutates rather than queries; `upgrade --all` still works.', 'search': 'Zinit resolves plugins straight from forge URLs and indexes no registry to search.'}

Per-operation hints rendered in the Notes column of the manager page’s Operations table.

Keyed by the Operations member name, each value is a single short sentence explaining why the manager lacks the operation, or what makes its implementation partial: the pointer a reader needs to judge whether the gap is one they could help close. Each sentence starts with a capital and closes with a period, and starts on a word rather than a code span, so the cell reads standalone beside its row. A blank cell stays silent: a manager documenting nothing documents no gap.

The full rationale never lives here: it belongs in a comment beside the implementing method (or beside this declaration, for an operation with no method to hang it on), so the sentence on the page stays a hint and the code keeps the story. The class docstring follows the same split: it keeps only what a user needs to run the tool day to day, never how mpm wraps it.

Validated by test_operation_notes, which also checks every key matches a real operation: a key outside the enum’s vocabulary would never reach a page.

documentation_url: str | None = 'https://zdharma-continuum.github.io/zinit/wiki/'

Entry point of the project’s own documentation, or None when it has none.

The manual, the documentation site, or the man page of the CLI mpm drives: whichever page a user reads to learn the commands this manager wraps. Listed between homepage_url and repository_url in the links of the manager’s page, so a reader reaching for the tool’s reference finds it in the box of facts rather than in the prose below it.

Left unset where a link would state a fact twice or invent one: a tool documenting itself in its repository alone, whose README repository_url already reaches. A page about the ecosystem rather than the tool does not qualify either.

Where a project’s only site is its manual, that address belongs here and homepage_url stays unset: the slot names what the page is, and a reader reaching for the reference looks under the documentation link.

Never inherited, like every other link: the AUR helpers extending pacman each document themselves.

repository_url: str | None = 'https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit'

Repository holding the project’s code, or None when it has no public one.

Linked from the manager’s documentation page. Also what the weekly metrics sample reads: docs/docs_update.py writes it into the [tool.repomatic.metrics] subjects of pyproject.toml when its forge answers the sampler, through a mirror for a forge that does not.

Never inherited, for the same reason as wikipedia_url: the AUR helpers extending pacman each live in a repository of their own.

logo: str | None = 'zsh'

Slug of the brand mark standing for this manager in the documentation.

Names an SVG vendored under docs/assets/managers/, whose provenance and license are recorded in docs/assets/managers/logos.yaml. Inlined at the top of the manager’s page by meta_package_manager._docs; a manager leaving it unset keeps the page’s default package glyph.

Several managers legitimately share one slug, either because they wrap the same upstream (brew and cask) or because the tool has no mark of its own and its ecosystem’s stands in (apt under Debian’s swirl, cargo under Rust’s gear). Documentation-only, like homepage_url: no CLI output reads it.

platforms: frozenset[Platform] | Group | Platform | Iterable[Platform | Group] = frozenset({Platform(id='almalinux', name='AlmaLinux'), Platform(id='alpine', name='Alpine Linux'), Platform(id='altlinux', name='ALT Linux'), Platform(id='amzn', name='Amazon Linux'), Platform(id='android', name='Android'), Platform(id='arch', name='Arch Linux'), Platform(id='buildroot', name='Buildroot'), Platform(id='cachyos', name='CachyOS'), Platform(id='centos', name='CentOS'), Platform(id='chromeos', name='ChromeOS'), Platform(id='clearlinux', name='Clear Linux OS'), Platform(id='cloudlinux', name='CloudLinux OS'), Platform(id='crux', name='CRUX'), Platform(id='debian', name='Debian'), Platform(id='endeavouros', name='EndeavourOS'), Platform(id='exherbo', name='Exherbo Linux'), Platform(id='fedora', name='Fedora'), Platform(id='generic_linux', name='Generic Linux'), Platform(id='gentoo', name='Gentoo Linux'), Platform(id='guix', name='Guix System'), Platform(id='ibm_powerkvm', name='IBM PowerKVM'), Platform(id='kali', name='Kali Linux'), Platform(id='kvmibm', name='KVM for IBM z Systems'), Platform(id='linuxmint', name='Linux Mint'), Platform(id='macos', name='macOS'), Platform(id='mageia', name='Mageia'), Platform(id='mandriva', name='Mandriva Linux'), Platform(id='manjaro', name='Manjaro Linux'), Platform(id='nixos', name='NixOS'), Platform(id='nobara', name='Nobara'), Platform(id='nutyx', name='NuTyX'), Platform(id='opensuse', name='openSUSE'), Platform(id='openwrt', name='OpenWrt'), Platform(id='oracle', name='Oracle Linux'), Platform(id='parallels', name='Parallels'), Platform(id='pidora', name='Pidora'), Platform(id='pikaos', name='PikaOS'), Platform(id='raspbian', name='Raspbian'), Platform(id='rhel', name='RedHat Enterprise Linux'), Platform(id='rocky', name='Rocky Linux'), Platform(id='scientific', name='Scientific Linux'), Platform(id='slackware', name='Slackware'), Platform(id='sles', name='SUSE Linux Enterprise Server'), Platform(id='slitaz', name='SliTaz GNU/Linux'), Platform(id='solus', name='Solus'), Platform(id='sourcemage', name='Source Mage GNU/Linux'), Platform(id='tuxedo', name='Tuxedo OS'), Platform(id='ubuntu', name='Ubuntu'), Platform(id='ultramarine', name='Ultramarine'), Platform(id='void', name='Void Linux'), Platform(id='wsl1', name='Windows Subsystem for Linux v1'), Platform(id='wsl2', name='Windows Subsystem for Linux v2'), Platform(id='xenserver', name='XenServer')})

List of platforms supported by the manager.

Allows for a mishmash of platforms and groups of platforms. Will be normalized into a frozenset of Platform instances at instantiation.

requirement: str | None = '>=3.10.0'

First release of the zdharma-continuum fork whose confirmation prompt, and thus the --yes flag Zinit.remove() depends on, behaves.

cli_names: tuple[str, ...] = ('zsh',)

Zsh is the binary mpm actually executes.

Zinit itself is a shell function defined by a zinit.zsh file that is sourced, never executed, so it cannot serve as the manager’s CLI: mpm requires an executable, and that file ships non-executable. Keying the manager on Zsh instead makes the version probe the presence check, since sourcing an absent zinit.zsh yields no version and leaves the manager unavailable.

extra_env: ClassVar = {'SHELL_SESSIONS_DISABLE': '1'}

Keep macOS’ Zsh session bookkeeping from writing a session file on every query.

version_cli_options: tuple[str, ...] = ('version',)

CLI options used to produce the version of the package manager.

The raw output produced by the package manager CLI will be parsed with the version_regexes below to extract the version number.

version_regexes: tuple[str, ...] = ('zinit\\s+v(?P<version>\\S+)',)

Zinit reports the git describe of its own checkout, so a clone sitting past a tag reports a 3.15.0-5-gb1946ac flavored version.

$ zinit version
zinit v3.15.0 (darwin25.4.0_arm64)

homepage_url: str | None = None

Home page of the project, only used in documentation for reference.

Left unset when the home page is the project’s repository, which repository_url names on its own, and when it is the project’s manual, which documentation_url names. Never inherited, like the other links.

id: str = 'zinit'

Package manager’s ID.

Derived by defaults from the lower-cased class name in which underscores _ are replaced by dashes -.

This ID must be unique among all package manager definitions and lower-case, as they’re used as feature flags for the mpm CLI.

name: str = 'Zinit'

Return package manager’s common name.

Default value is based on class name.

virtual: bool = False

Should we expose the package manager to the user?

Virtual package manager are just skeleton classes used to factorize code among managers of the same family.

wikipedia_url: str | None = None

English Wikipedia article about the project, or None when it has none.

Listed last in the links of the manager’s documentation page. The article covers the project that home page names, or is a redirect Wikipedia keeps under the project’s name, landing on the part of a broader article that describes it: Cargo_(software) opens the Cargo section of the Rust article. An article that merely mentions the project does not count, nor does one about a related subject: lazy is a Neovim plugin manager, and the Neovim article is not about it.

Never inherited: the metaclass resets it to None on any class not declaring its own. A subclass often wraps a distinct project, like the six AUR helpers extending pacman, and would otherwise present pacman’s article as its own. Documentation-only, like homepage_url.

build_cli(*args, **kwargs)

Wrap all CLI invocations in the Zsh shell Zinit needs.

Three subcommands need a shell of their own shape, so the wrapper is chosen from the subcommand rather than being uniform.

plugins reads the plugin registry out of shell state that the zinit load calls of the user’s .zshrc populate, so it runs zsh --interactive and lets that file do the sourcing. Sourcing zinit.zsh again on top would reset the registry and report nothing.

load is prefixed with the cloneonly ice, which stops Zinit right after the clone. Installing a plugin otherwise sources it, running third-party shell code inside the process mpm drives.

version is guarded by a readability test that exits successfully when zinit.zsh is absent. Zsh is the default shell on macOS and near ubiquitous elsewhere, so an unguarded probe would turn every host that merely has Zsh into a manager reporting errors. A zinit.zsh that is present but broken still fails loudly.

Note

The **kwargs accepted by the base class (auto_pre_args, sudo, etc.) are accepted but ignored because every invocation goes through the zsh -c wrapper and Zinit never requires elevated privileges.

Return type:

tuple[str, ...]

property installed: Iterator[Package]

Fetch installed packages.

Zinit reports no version alongside a plugin, so packages are yielded bare: pinning a plugin to a revision is an ice modifier of the user’s own zinit load call, not state Zinit surfaces in this listing.

$ zsh --interactive -c 'zinit plugins'
==> 3 Plugins

 1 L ~zinit/zinit.git

 2 L zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting

 3 U zsh-users/zsh-completions


Loaded: L | Unloaded: U

install(package_id, version=None)

Install one package.

Zinit conflates installing a plugin with sourcing it, so Zinit.build_cli() sets the cloneonly ice ahead of this call.

$ zinit load zdharma-continuum/null

Return type:

str

upgrade_all_cli()

Generates the CLI to upgrade all packages.

Note

Zinit self-updates before updating anything else, so this also pulls and recompiles Zinit itself.

$ zinit update --all

Return type:

tuple[str, ...]

upgrade_one_cli(package_id, version=None)

Generates the CLI to upgrade one package.

$ zinit update zdharma-continuum/null

Return type:

tuple[str, ...]

remove(package_id)

Remove one package.

$ zinit delete --yes zdharma-continuum/null

Return type:

str