The Eclipse Platform is an open and extensible platform for anything and yet nothing in particular. It provides a foundation for constructing and running integrated software-development tools. The Eclipse Platform allows tool builders to independently develop tools that integrate with other people's tools so seamlessly you can't tell where one tool ends and another starts. . This package provides tools for easy development of plug-ins for Eclipse. . Please note that many plugins will fail to install if you don't have the eclipse-pde package installed.