Pear & PHP5/MySQL5

i have successfully installed php5 beta 3 & mysql 5.0.0 & the pear that came with php5 (on mandrake 9.2). i compiled with mysqli, and was able to connect with mysql 5 (using the new mysqli_connect() function), but pear apparently could not, always producing an error "DB Error: extension not found". replacing mysqli with the standard mysql (compile php --with-mysql) solved the problem. the question i have is, assuming my experience is to be expected, when will Pear operate correctly with mysqli? thanks, julian darley