neat thanks. i wrote a simple powershell script which parses the deploy.xml and zips only those files up, so it could be used with

sdfcli deploy -p myzip.zip

, but then not all versions of powershell are supported, and then i don't want to re-invent the wheel if it's already out there

A solution for this is being developed by the NetSuite team at the moment. The CLI and IDEs will use deploy.xml to zip the content of the project