Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Matthew Brown
W/r/t the goals: – Promote the release of PHP 8 to the PHP developers > – Promote PHP as a modern language, as well as the PHP 8 release, to the > general tech audience The page's design does a *great* job of promoting PHP 8 to existing PHP developers, but a general tech audience skeptical of PH

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Gabriel Caruso
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 15:25, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, at 6:10 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: > > What helps me when I spread the word is if there is a simple page that > > will look good on a retweet/FB/LinkedIn page, with a couple of release > > highlights. It doesn't need to be fa

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Ben Ramsey
> On Oct 12, 2020, at 08:24, Larry Garfield wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, at 6:10 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: >> What helps me when I spread the word is if there is a simple page that >> will look good on a retweet/FB/LinkedIn page, with a couple of release >> highlights. It doesn't need to be fanc

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: want an Object-oriented interface for HashContext

2020-10-12 Thread Rowan Tommins
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 15:20, G. P. B. wrote: > Therefore I am not sure what composer and a userland package can bring... > As an example of this general approach, the MongoDB extension provides a minimal set of low-level "driver" functionality, and the official userland package builds on top o

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: want an Object-oriented interface for HashContext

2020-10-12 Thread G. P. B.
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 15:01, Kingsquare.nl - Robin Speekenbrink < ro...@kingsquare.nl> wrote: > Op ma 12 okt. 2020 om 14:55 schreef Christoph M. Becker >: > > > On 12.10.2020 at 13:49, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote: > > > > > something like > > > > > > $result = (new > > HashContext("SHA1"))->update(

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: want an Object-oriented interface for HashContext

2020-10-12 Thread Kingsquare.nl - Robin Speekenbrink
Op ma 12 okt. 2020 om 14:55 schreef Christoph M. Becker : > On 12.10.2020 at 13:49, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote: > > > something like > > > > $result = (new > HashContext("SHA1"))->update($str1)->update($str2)->final(); > > > > (userland sample imp: https://3v4l.org/lXd3u ) > > > > I tried asking on

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Larry Garfield
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, at 6:10 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: > What helps me when I spread the word is if there is a simple page that > will look good on a retweet/FB/LinkedIn page, with a couple of release > highlights.  It doesn't need to be fancy, but something that flashes a > big PHP 8.0 logo or some s

[PHP-DEV] Re: want an Object-oriented interface for HashContext

2020-10-12 Thread Christoph M. Becker
On 12.10.2020 at 13:49, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote: > something like > > $result = (new HashContext("SHA1"))->update($str1)->update($str2)->final(); > > (userland sample imp: https://3v4l.org/lXd3u ) > > I tried asking on the bugtracker ( https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80221 ) , > but was told to a

[PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Roman Pronskiy
Hello Internals, The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be done to promote it more extensively. Usually for releases, there’s a short text announcement on php.net. This may be okay for minor releases and

[PHP-DEV] want an Object-oriented interface for HashContext

2020-10-12 Thread Hans Henrik Bergan
something like $result = (new HashContext("SHA1"))->update($str1)->update($str2)->final(); (userland sample imp: https://3v4l.org/lXd3u ) I tried asking on the bugtracker ( https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80221 ) , but was told to ask on this mailing list instead. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtim

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Eliot Lear
What helps me when I spread the word is if there is a simple page that will look good on a retweet/FB/LinkedIn page, with a couple of release highlights.  It doesn't need to be fancy, but something that flashes a big PHP 8.0 logo or some such as the image as part of the preview would be quite nice.

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Arvids Godjuks
Can confirm, Gmail ate the email into spam folder. On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 10:16 Lynn wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:57 AM Roman Pronskiy < > roman.prons...@jetbrains.com> > wrote: > > > Hello Internals, > > > > Hi, this message ended up in my spam directory with the message, could be > that p

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread AllenJB
On 12/10/2020 08:56, Roman Pronskiy wrote: Hello Internals, The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be done to promote it more extensively. Usually for releases, there’s a short text announcement on ph

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Rowan Tommins
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 08:57, Roman Pronskiy wrote: > The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could > say it's a whole new language. > I think that's going a bit far. I don't want to detract from the great features in 8.0, but there were great features in other releases as

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Lester Caine
On 12/10/2020 08:56, Roman Pronskiy wrote: The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be done to promote it more extensively. HOPEFULLY that does not mean it's as much of a cock-up as Python 2 to Python 3

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 12.10.2020 um 09:56 schrieb Roman Pronskiy: The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be done to promote it more extensively. Agreed! So, the idea is to create a separate release announcement landing

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Lynn
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:57 AM Roman Pronskiy wrote: > Hello Internals, > Hi, this message ended up in my spam directory with the message, could be that people missed it. When opening the message, gmail told me: "Gmail could not verify that it actually came from jetbrains.com. Avoid clicking li