it was a decision by ironclad to simplify file loading for entrenchment, but they forgot that people other than themselves make maps so the came up with the idea of all maps being in a list, but no automatic way of adding to the list,.
I would have finished the galaxy manifest manager earlier but I was busy with the map updater & debuging the internationalisation of it before I could get back to playing & the galaxy manifest issue irritated me so I modified the code from the latest map updater to delete all galaxy manifests and get all galaxy file names then create a NEW galaxy.manifest in the entrenchment folder, so that all maps would be available in all entrechment mods.
so that is the history of the manifest manager
harpo