Next planned features:
Include other files in a release - Immediately - Add a way to include other files as part of the release that don't go in 'upload'. This will probably be a new subfolder per project so you can create folders such as "do_not_upload" or "docs" in there.
Merging Automatic Template Compiler with VDE - Several Weeks - ATC is a similar modification to VDE, but instead of running things from filesystem and injecting into memory, it actually persists the templates properly into a style. This is fantastic for style development, or if you are working on an actual site and not just a product you want to distribute.
I'm working on a large new forum / skin / etc. right now, and I've created a original_templates and customized_templates inside of my project folder. If I want to customize a
stock vBulletin template, then I copy it from original into customized, and as soon as I edit it, it will actually edit the template inside vBulletin. This allows us to still export the style as we normally would.
I plan on doing something similar for stock phrases, stylevars, etc. since when working on an actual site, it is crucial to modify this stuff.
Who here would find this useful? If not, I'll keep doing it how I'm doing it and not further develop it.