Christopher Hiller

> Why would you prevent browser reporters from accessing the config file. @jamestalmage Because browser reporters run in the browser and do not have access to the filesystem.

@pluma see #1457

oh wait, this _is_ #1457.

@pluma Anyway, it's going to be iterative. I'm not sure we can _release_ it iteratively, but the first thing I'm focusing on is providing several common interfaces for reporters of...

@opsb You can't do this? ``` js // top of file beforeEach(function() { // blah }); describe('stuff', function() { // more tests }); ``` or perhaps not asynchronously? I thought...

anyway `mocha.opts` (or more precisely, "the configuration file") should be accessible via a programmatic API.

as mentioned in #1668

> Maybe domictarr/rc could be useful to implementing a configuration file easily Definitely. I forked it to [rc-yaml](https://npmjs.com/package/rc-yaml) which adds, well, YAML support.

I believe it's the same as the site, which is [CC-BY-4.0](https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/blob/master/docs/LICENSE-CC-BY-4.0). I don't know of any further restrictions on its use, but that doesn't mean there aren't any. The old...

(a cursory search of the USPTO database doesn't return any obvious hits)