I think vundle is a lot nicer than pathogen. It supports all addons that support pathogen and makes installing and updating them much simpler.
https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
I've used both Pathogen and Vundle in the past but recently I started using NeoBundle[1] and like it a lot more. I guess you could say it is a successor to Vundle. It can compile if that's required, and lazily load plugins as needed, among other things.
