[docs]: How to install the traditional way?

[ppetr]

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I don't want to use zi (because zpmod would be the only thing I'd use it for). And even less so sh <(curl ...). There are multiple reasons against the latter.

• It doesn't provide system-wide installation of the plugin.
• It's not possible to integrate this with standard package managers, for example to build a .deb package.
• There have been far to many security exploits based on this (see for example https://0x46.net/thoughts/2019/04/27/piping-curl-to-shell/ for a discussion).
• The auto-update part in the install script also is problematic from a sysadmin / security perspective

So I tried:

• Checking out the repo.
• ./configure --enable-cflags='-g -Wall -Wextra -O3' --disable-gdbm --without-tcsetpgrp && make -j$(nproc) (it seems that make runs the configure script all over again).
• module_path+=($PWD/Src/zi) ; zmodload zpmod

But at this point I'm not able to see of/how zpmod is actually running. And where it stores the compiled files. I tried creating directory ~/.zi, but it's not being populated. And zpmod source-study -l shows loading time of some files in the order of 100ms, which I guess means they're not being compiled.

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[ss-o]

Hi @ppetr 👋

I am working on your issue and will update you soon.

And where it stores the compiled files.

All files are compiled to the *.zwc for example .zshrc would have .zshrc.zwc next to it.

And zpmod source-study -l shows loading time of some files in the order of 100ms, which I guess means they're not being compiled.

The zpmod source-study -l shows scripts sourced in the current session, i.e.: if you source any script, e.g. source some_script.sh or source ~/.zshenv it will show the loading time of the sourced file. In other words, as mentioned in zpmod -h:

Displays list of files loaded via source or . builtins, with a duration that each
loading lasted, in milliseconds. The module tracks all calls to those builtins and
measures the time each call took. This can be used for e.g. profile loading of plugins,
regardless of the plugin manager used.

[Freed-Wu]

How to install the traditional way

IMO, the tradintional way is source *.plugin.zsh. Perhaps this repo can have a https://github.com/z-shell/zgdbm/blob/main/zgdbm.plugin.zsh to do this work?