pear installer in PHP 5.1 RC1

We can't put an RC1 out there until we fix the pear/XML_RPC issue. Personally I'd like to completely get rid of it, but I see the following options: 1. Put pear 1.4 into RC1 which means we can drop XML_RPC and go REST 2. Force ext/xmlrpc to be mandatory and drop XML_RPC 3. Fix XML_RPC to not suck 4. RC1 goes out with a pear installer than only works if people compile with xmlrpc 5. Drop the pear installer completely from PHP 5.1 It's been many weeks now and is at this point holding up RC1. I'd actually like to see option 1. I know it isn't quite ready yet, but perhaps we can get a few more people working on it and make it ready. I can commit a day or two to it and I can bring in a couple of developers from India as well if needed. But we'd need to understand where the troublespots are and how much work may be left. Option 2 would cause a number of people to freak out. Well perhaps only Jani, but still. Option 3 may very well be the easiest, but we have been waiting weeks for a fix on this one with multiple people saying they had something, and we still don't see a fix. Option 4 is easy as well since Andi or I can do it on our own. I'd like to avoid option 5. -Rasmus