Greetings,
I keep getting requests from my long-distance collaborators to "just ZIP up your current project and send it to us". This means I need to locate the files in the project from the chaff of abandoned attempts that I have kept for reference. The projects I deal with have multiple directories for different features and layer functionality. IMHO a very nice utility would be a "ZIP Project" feature. This would then create a ZIP file and put in all the project files with relative paths.
I know this may sound like I am lazy, but with the number of projects I work on and the number of requests I receive, it would be very nice to just open a project, "ZIP it", and send it on it’s way.
"... create a ZIP file and put in all the project files with relative paths."
Because a makefile has to know all about project files and dependencies, it's easy to add a special make target to do all the zipping up of project files. I use make to do that very thing plus auto-generate Doxygen helpfile, html, and PDF documentation from the source code.