pear on OS X?

I'm developing on an OS X box and will be hosting on either a windows (yech) or linux (yay!) machine, depending on decisions that are beyond my control. I'm using pear for things like DB abstraction, and SMARTY for templates. My question is: how do I use Pear on my OS X box? I'm running 10.1.5 currently, will upgrade to Jaguar in the next month. I've got the packages that came standard with the install and they work beautifully. Anything else I need to know? I haven't been able to set up the package manager--has anyone been able to make this work? Also, when I want to install more packages--where do I go? I can't find a central repository and the CVS documentation hasn't been written. Any tips on using Pear on an OS X machine would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jim .................. .. .................. jimray@ibiblio.org .. ibiblio.org/jimray