At the risk of finding a brown paper bag bug, I've released the latest version of my mailhacks modules. See my Perl projects page or wait for the Mail::Action 0.30, Mail::SimpleList 0.87, and Mail::TempAddress 0.56 to hit the CPAN.
Tomorrow's project? Test::MockObject::Extends.
(Mini-rant: Mail::Box is huge to pull in just for message handling, but it appears to work. It'd surely be nice if it were split into smaller pieces, though. I don't need IMAP, POP3, mbox, or maildir handling to parse a message.)
Re:"Brown paper bag" bug?
lachoy on 2004-03-16T12:41:06
When you put out a release only to realize a short time later the existence of a blindingly obvious bug that requires you to wear a (virtual) brown paper bag over your head from the embarrassment as you put out a new release with a three-line changelog. Here's an example...
IME this most often happens with releases that have been in the cooker too long.
Jargon: brown-paper-bag bug
Mr. Muskrat on 2004-03-16T12:43:58
From brown-paper-bag bug:
brown-paper-bag bug n. A bug in a public software release that is so embarrassing that the author notionally wears a brown paper bag over his head for a while so he won't be recognized on the net. Entered popular usage after the early-1999 release of the first Linux 2.2, which had one. The phrase was used in Linus Torvalds's apology posting.
