[Via Mark] Every SharePoint developer knows that creating SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP files) for deploying your web parts, event handlers, features, … is the way to go: it allows the SharePoint administrators to easily deploy the customizations, even scheduled deployments and multi front-end-webserver deployments are supported. But every SharePoint developer also knows that creating Sharepoint Solutions Packages is … wel, let’s put it nicely: not a lot of fun to do. 🙂
Vince Rothwell seems to have a very clean solution for this: a Visual Studio 2005 Template which generates a SharePoint Solution. Read the details in his blog post.