Dependency Management
Perhaps using maven repository structure for binaries. And dependency management similar to that used in buildr:
http://buildr.apache.org/artifacts.html
This could be a good idea. To bring in a third pear, I'll be working with Ivy shortly and then I'll check it out.
Are you amongst things talking about building hierarchical projects?
With dependency management; do you mean for building albacore or for building with albacore? I guess the latter. In that case, I'll have to look into buildr. Could you give a bullet-point list of what it would entail?
I've had some decent success just now using chocolatey to install all the packages listed in a custom nuget feed defined at http://myget.org - cinst all -source http://www.myget.org/F/peteworkstation/.
It depends then on package-availability there whether that route's sufficient for each Albacore user; chocolatey is reasonably new (though it had the benefit of Just Working, for me at least).