On his blog today, Andi Gutmans has a new (long) post with his take on the Zend Framework and some of the "behind the scenes" details of how things are going.

I'm aware that things are a bit fuzzy at this point (vapourware?), although Wez's recent blog posting has definitely made things a bit more real for many.

My intention is to share some of the work as early as possible so that people can start to play around with it. Main reason why we're holding back right now, is because at this point I don't believe we have enough implemented to make a good first impression.

In any case, the progress we've made is still short from being called a framework. We are currently working on some of the key MVC glue which would really define the framework for what it is.

He spends the rest of the post talking about what work there's still to do, some of the licensing misunderstandings, and how the Zend Framework will effect PEAR in the future...

I am planning to give a Webcast with php|architect within a bit over a month where we'll talk more about the framework and hopefully also have some stuff to show. If there's enough to show before that, I'll definitely do so.

I'll be keeping an eye out for that webcast, and I'll let the community know when it's coming up. For some reason, I can see the attendance being rather high...