Vundle vs Pathogen

Hi all,

I've made a study about vundle and pathogen, I want to hear opinions
of others, how do you think about it ?

I have been using Pathogen for a long time and I am happy with it. But
it seems that more and more Vim scripts are recommending to use Vundle
in their install references. So I made a study today, the conclusion
is, although almost all the articles I found from Google have a
positive attitude on Vundle, I still prefer Pathogen.

Most supporters of Vundle praise it for one reason, that is, it can
install and update scripts automatically, which is lacked by Pathogen.
Yes, since Vundle leverages the vim-scripts repository on GitHub, it
is really easier to do so than Pathogen. But the disadvantage is as
good as the advantage. I found that the vim-scripts repo is not
updated in time, the latest activity was carried out a month ago ! As
an OCD patient of updating, I cannot tolerate old versions of vim
scripts. Although that Vundle supports using scripts' git repos of
their own (either on GitHub or other places), there is still a
problem, what if authors commit broken code to the master brunch ?

Moreover, not all scripts are deposited in public git repos. How can I
organize those scripts in ~/.vim/bundle/ and prevent :BundleClean from
deleting them at the same time ?

Pathogen only handles the organization job that puts scripts in
individual folders under ~/.vim/bundle/, so there is without the above
problem. For updating issues, GetLatestVimScripts.vim is a good
choice, it fetches the latest stable updates from vim.org, so I don't
have to worry about careless commits. The only problem is, when
GetLatestVimScripts.vim downloads all packages, I should install them
manually. But since most scripts rarely update, I think this is not a
hard work to do.

My blog post: http://0x3f.org/blog/vundle-vs-pathogen/

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