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When you create a zip distribution from a suite, the result does not include a parent dir. This is unlike the way applications typically are distributed (i.e. if you unzip it on your desktop you get this explosion of crud when what you really wanted was a directory appname/contentsOfZip - this sort of thing was common ten years ago but not today). In other words, the result of "create zip distribution" is not anything anybody would want to distribute. I vaguely recollect some obscure zip option to prepend a path to things being compressed.
OK, makes sense.
committed * Up-To-Date 1.17 apisupport/harness/release/README committed * Up-To-Date 1.20 apisupport/harness/release/suite.xml
verified (in custom build 051012)