Looks like quite an effort, thanks for the contribution I will check it out. However it does not (nor can it) deal with my pet peeve that the arduino IDE no longer stores a compiled sketch's hex file into the users sketch folder as it did long ago in much earlier versions. It's a real pain to search out the temp directory for the strange file names it uses and to then store them away somewhere useful for future use. What procedure or steps do you use to handle your hex file storage?
Lefty