I'd consider xmonad either a 'child' or 'inspired by' dwm, as it and dwm share no code in common, just design and ui ideas. Contrast this with `awesome', which is definitely a fork -- it reuses the same codebase..
Most of the other dwm variants seem to be user configured dwms, not even forks. (What would be simply part of the extension library in xmonad land). I have a theory that dwm is the lisp of window managers: so simple that people default to writing their own incompatible reimplementation, just because they can. This means Anselm got it right -- Don gottox: > Another question: Is xmonad a fork? I don't think so :) > 2007/10/19, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:19:39PM +0200, markus schnalke wrote: > > > Enno Gottox Boland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 2007/10/19, pancake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Why not keep this list in the suckless wiki? > > > > Done. http://www.suckless.org/wiki/dwm/patches/0_general > > > > > > What is the difference between "offsite patches" and "external repos > > > / forks"? > > > What distinguishes between "patches" and "fork"? > > > > > > (I think dwm-meillo is a patchset to dwm, not a fork.) > > > > Well it is an external repo at least ;) > > > > Regards, > > -- > > Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361 > > > > > > > -- > http://www.gnuffy.org - Real Community Distro > http://www.gnuffy.org/index.php/GnuEm - Gnuffy on Ipaq (Codename Peggy) >
