Every so often I notice that someone has managed to take care of a significant annoyance that I had with some module. For instance this morning I noticed that you can now use Exporter 'import'; and not mess with @ISA. (Which is how I think it should have been done in the first place.) One annoyance gone (though I predict that the old meme won't die anytime soon).

A couple of months ago I noticed that Module::Build::Compat supports a 'traditional' target, solving most complaints that I had about using the 'passthrough' one.

Both of these are great, but of course they do no good until I noticed that they have been fixed.

So what annoyances have the rest of you (probably belatedly) recently noticed that there are now solutions for?

In reply to Deprecated annoyances by tilly

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