soft deprecate configuration via mocha.opts

mochajs · Aug 19, 2019 · b85ef0c · b85ef0c
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diff --git a/lib/cli/options.js b/lib/cli/options.js
@@ -195,6 +195,9 @@ const loadMochaOpts = (args = {}) => {
   // if there's an exception to catch here, I'm not sure what it is.
   // by attaching the `no-opts` arg, we avoid re-parsing of `mocha.opts`.
   if (mochaOpts) {
+    deprecate(
+      'Configuration via mocha.opts is DEPRECATED and will be removed from a future version of Mocha. Use RC files or package.json instead.'
+    );
     result = parse(parseMochaOpts(mochaOpts));
     debug(`${filepath} parsed succesfully`);
   }

diff --git a/lib/cli/run.js b/lib/cli/run.js
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ exports.builder = yargs =>
       },
       opts: {
         default: defaults.opts,
-        description: 'Path to `mocha.opts`',
+        description: 'Path to `mocha.opts` (DEPRECATED)',
         group: GROUPS.CONFIG,
         normalize: true,
         requiresArg: true