For your use case it may not be necessary, as the classpath is set according to the config

So if you use io/resource it will automatically work alright

that’s a good point, thanks! 🙂

but i’ve noticed that neither *file* nor babashka.file seem to be helpful in the task context, so maybe it’s worth considering nevertheless (although i realize babashka.task is available to detect whether we’re in task)

We can still add this, no problem. Issue + PR welcome

would you prefer to have the bb.edn location accessible via babashka.file?

or a separate property?

hmm, interesting, yeah let's do a separate property

babashka.config

Or maybe a function in babashka.tasks?

or maybe one in babashka.core

The benefit of a function would be that you don't have to set the property when nobody uses it

hmm, isn’t the same true for babashka.file ?

fwiw i would be less surprised to find that info in a property, it seems consistent with what’s already there

yes, the same is true for babashka.file but this was a progressive insight. the least amount of work we have to do at startup, the better

but yeah, now there's maybe no way back

so let's go forward with the system property

I guess we can spare 2/100th of a ms of startup time ;)

user=> (time (System/setProperty "babashka.config" "foo.bar"))
"Elapsed time: 0.024758 msecs"

lol, hopefully :)