Midcom 2.6 schema and sql files

Hi, with MidCOM 2.6 comming along nicely, I'm starting to wonder how 
poeple are planning to get the midgard tables updated for the extra 
MidCOM schemas.

As I see it there are a few options:
1. Release MidCOM with 1.8 only.
-> Risky as we do not know when 1.8 will be out.

2. Release Midcom for 1.7 with a simple update script as a stopgap measure.

Item (2) raises tow new questions:
a) Should this release be done with pear?
b) If if should be done with pear, how should we package and run the 
tableupdates?

I'm wondering as I'm trying to get the pear installations running on the 
testbox and I see this and the issues on static dirs as the main 
problems at the moment.
Regards,
Tarjei