One of the hardest things with using configuration packages is constantly creating new manifest and zip files.   It would be great if we could load our individual files and once working, throw them into a directory and have the directory read and a manifest (with proper sequencing) and package header file created and the whole thing zipped together as part of the operation. Creating templates from a list of files would help as well since the template can be easily loaded and brought into an export data package to get data out.