Concerns about PEAR in PHP6

Today Pierre announced that he pulled PEAR from PHP6 branch (http://blog.thepimp.net/index.php/2005/08/16/13-php-60-and-pear). Now well this doesn't have an immediate impact it does concern me that a change this big wasn't even announced on this list. I realize its a lot of work, but if Pierre doesn't want to do it then it should be brought up here to give someone else a chance. Especially in infrastructure, PEAR should be about whats best for the community not what the maintainer feels like doing. Anyhow either someone needs to step up and put some sort of installer back in and make the commitment to keep up with releases or we need to figure out ways to mitigate the problem by making the installation steps more clear. -josh