Just to confirm my intuition, I did a little bit of research:
<div><br></div><div>* Perl pip 1.16 was release November 2009, pip 0.13 (the previous version) was released December 2007. Â There's no evidence of development in the svn repository between those times, why 0.13 jumped to 1.16 I don't know.</div>
<div>* Python pip 0.2 was released October 2008 and has had 11 releases since then.</div><div>* Perl's pip has 3 open bugs and zero closed bugs.</div><div>* Python's pip has 37 open bugs (okay, more than I'd like) and 44 closed bugs.</div>
<div>* Python's pip has 41 forked repositories and 160 followers on bitbucket.</div><div>* I've invested significantly in the pip name and idea. Â I see no evidence of any such investment for Perl's pip. Â Zero.</div>
<div>* Maybe there is a shadow user base of Perl's pip, but if so they've boycotted the web.</div><div>* There have been 82k cumulative downloads of Python pip via PyPI (I can't compare to Perl's pip though, as CPAN doesn't track these numbers).</div>
<div>* There have been 126k cumulative downloads of virtualenv which include Python pip (virtualenv has included pip since version 1.3.1)</div><div><br></div><div>So I'll stand firmly by the name: I and a lot of other people have invested in the code, the brand, and the idea of Python's pip, and I see no evidence of any investment in Perl's pip. Â It's hard to find a name for a project, requiring that there be no overlap with any discarded or lightly maintained project out there is too much to ask.</div>