installing kcfg xml files

[Nicolas Fella]

On 7/30/25 4:19 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> Hi
>
> Due to <reasons> I was looking at why we install kcfg files.
> They seem to have two different usages in the sources:
>
> They can be KConfigLoader'ed at runtime or they can be kconfig_compiler'ed
> to c++ code at build time. Or sometimes both.
>
> I don't know if I have missed something, but do we have utilities that
> work with other projects kcfg files where it would be an advantage to
> have the kcfg files around for the code generated c++ files ?

To the best of my knowledge, not right now. I have a prototype for a 
config editor that would use these on my disk, but I don't know yet 
whether I will actually turn this into a real thing.

> Do we gain anything from installing a settings.kcfg file for a component
> that is using it for code generating at build time, or are we just
> confusing our future selves by having them also installed?
>
> /Sune
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