This moves the helper function for getting the `Config` object from the
configuration file via the runtime.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>
This merge solved a _LOT_ of conflicts and was a rather complicated one,
as parts of the conflict-resolution involved rewriting of half the
stuff.
This merge commit fixes all the things so a `cargo check --all`
succeeds, but I did not yet check whether tests run without failure.
