Third Party Plugins

The best place to start looking for a plugin is the Eclipse Marketplace . We list some interesting plugins here. Since these are third-party plugins, there is no official support from Sigasi.

Installing Plugins

Unlike most Eclipse distributions, Sigasi Visual HDL (SVH) is shipped without the Eclipse Marketplace plugin and the standard Eclipse update sites. Hence, you have to add a plugin update site to install new plugins.

• Adding the update site
  • First, find the update site for the plugin you want to install. For example: for the Mercurial plugin, the update site is https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/mercurialeclipse-updatesite/-/raw/branch/default/p2/ . You can see the browsable version here .
  • Click Help > Install New Software Now click Add and fill out the update site. Press OK to confirm.
• Installing
  • Still in the Install dialog, search for the plugin you want to install. You can browse the list of available plugins or use the filter text above the list of plugins.
  • Select the checkbox for the plugin and click Next
  • Follow the instructions for the rest of the wizard.

Revision Control Systems

SVH supports a wide range of Revision Control Systems  (also known as Version Control or Source Control systems). Support for revision control is based on Eclipse plugins. This section contains a preliminary listing of the most popular revision control systems.

GIT

Recommended plugin: EGit  This plugin is shipped with the standalone version of SVH.

Subversion (SVN)

For Subversion we recommend the Subclipse  plugin.

To install this plugin, perform these steps in the Help > Install New Software… window:

• Add https://subclipse.github.io/updates/  to the Work with: line. This will provide the latest version of Subclipse.
• Then search for Subclipse and proceed with the installation.

To install older versions of Subclipse or if you need more information on Subclipse, you can refer to the documentation on https://github.com/subclipse/subclipse/wiki .

Note that we no longer recommend the Subversive  plugin since it is only available up to Eclipse oxygen.

ClearCase

Recommended plugin: ClearCase  (Update site: http://eclipse-ccase.sourceforge.net/update/ )

Note that this is the open-source ClearCase plugin hosted on SourceForge, not the official ClearCase plugin distributed by IBM .

Local History

While this is not strictly speaking a version control system, SVH has a built-in feature that keeps a local history of your files. Learn more .

Other Systems

Some other popular revision control systems include:

1. CVS learn more .
2. Mercurial (Hg) learn more .
3. Perforce learn more .

VI and Emacs

• VI: http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/ 
• Emacs: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/more-emacs 

Other Languages

• Tcl: see the Eclipse Tcl support in SVH tech article.
• Python: You can add support for Python to SVH by installing the PyDev  Eclipse plugin. Use https://www.pydev.org/updates  as update site.

Remote Collaboration

• You can use the Saros  plugin to remotely collaborate on the same project with multiple people. You’ll see edits from collaborators in your own editor as they happen. To install the Saros plugin in SVH, use https://www.saros-project.org/update-site/eclipse  as update site.

Opening to a Shell

• If you want a quick way to open files and folders from the Project Explorer in a terminal, EasyShell  is a useful plugin.