"Visual Studio Code - Insiders" needs to be updated on macOS Monterey

[targos]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Don't know. The message appears only once.

• VS Code Version:
• OS Version:
  Version: 1.62.0-insider
  Commit: 0dae77d
  Date: 2021-10-08T05:22:27.408Z
  Electron: 13.5.1
  Chrome: 91.0.4472.164
  Node.js: 14.16.0
  V8: 9.1.269.39-electron.0
  OS: Darwin arm64 21.1.0

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install the latest insiders version and run it on macOS Monterey (v12.0 beta)

It's not clear what needs to be done. I tried to click on "Learn more..." but the dialog disappeared and nothing else was opened. The dialog does not open again if I restart vscode.

[deepak1556]

It might be from https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-12-release-notes#Python, but VSCode doesn't have any direct usages of the Python2 runtime. I haven't tried this locally, will investigate further.

[targos]

@deepak1556 I think you're right. It happened again after I updated to Monterey Beta 10. This time the "Learn More..." button worked and opened this page: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/
I also think it's probably the Python extension that triggers this (although the Python I have installed in my PATH is Python 3.9.7).

[rorymurdock]

Fresh install on Monty RC and no prompt, as soon as I install the python extension and it finds all versions the prompt is triggered. VSCode v1.61.1

[deepak1556]

Thanks for confirming @targos , I did find a usage of the python runtime in the cli wrapper

vscode/resources/darwin/bin/code.sh

Line 6 in d817eda

function realpath() { python -c "import os,sys; print(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[1]))" "$0"; }

but it should depend on the python on the PATH and based off @rorymurdock confirmation looks like python extension might be the trigger after all.

[rorymurdock]

I'm confident that it would be when it does python -V

[deepak1556]

The current deprecation style from macOS is bit of an issue for VSCode, the notification is created whenever python2.7 runtime is accessed from any process of the app. If you access the runtime from integrated terminal which runs in a separate process it can also trigger the notification.

Looking at some other apps in the wild, for ex: iTerm2 is not affected by this change, wondering if there is an entitlement to opt-out of this deprecation message.

[rorymurdock]

For admins out there, if you want to silence this on your fleet while waiting for a fix:

https://grahamrpugh.com/2021/10/25/monterey-disable-python-2-deprecation-warnings.html

deploy this custom MDM preference

<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>DisablePythonAlert</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>