KWin no longer compositing?

[Lawrence Stewart]

On 10/24/11 19:05, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 24/10/2011 07:07 Greg Lewis said the following:
>> So it seems like even the newest version we support in ports is an
>> antique :(.  I'm going to guess upgrading it is not going to be easy.
>
> Almost trivial in a sense.
> I've been using xorg-dev for quite a while and it works great (for me).  Mesa is
> at 7.11 in those ports.
>
> http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/wiki
>

I too no longer have compositing in KDE 4.7.2 where I used to with 
4.6.x. Is there a technical reason the newer MESA hasn't been merged 
into mainline ports? Or is it purely a manpower thing?

Cheers,
Lawrence