Hi all,

We have just merged PR #7293 [1], and this has a few implications for developers and users. With the end goal being removing the dependency to the C implementation of the different Kconfig tools in order to provide native support on all operating systems, including Windows, Ulf has contributed a Python "menuconfig" implementation that is now the only frontend available for browsing the Kconfig tree.

In practice this means:

 * The gconfig and xconfig targets have been removed
 * The menuconfig target now uses a Python implementation with curses as its backend
 * There is a new Python requirement on Windows (windows-curses) that is part of requirements.txt

If anyone in the community wants to look into providing a graphical user interface for Kconfig to replace the ones that have been removed, a good starting point would be to:

 * Use Qt and the PyQt [2] or PySide [3](recently announced for Qt 5) bindings
 * Use scripts/kconfig/menuconfig.py as a reference on how to access the Kconfig tree data from Python

Regards,

Carles

[1] https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/pull/7293
[2] https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt
[3] https://wiki.qt.io/PySide