vscode not working on mac

[hohwille]

Expected behavior

As a IDEasy user, I want to install and run vscode via ide command so that I can easily use it.

Actual behavior

$ ide vscode
Expected folder was not found at /Users/hohwille/projects/IDEasy/settings/vscode/workspace/setup
Start: Configuring workspace main for IDE vscode
Successfully ended step 'Configuring workspace main for IDE vscode'.
Successfully completed ide (vscode)
/Users/hohwille/projects/IDEasy/software/vscode/bin/code: line 38: /Users/hohwille/projects/_ide/software/default/vscode/vscode/1.95.3/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron: Permission denied

Steps to reproduce (bug) / Use Case of feature request (enhancement)

1. ide vscode

Related/Dependent Issues

Comments/Hints:

Also plugin installations failed for this reason.

Affected version:

• OS:Mac
• 2024.12.001-beta-SNAPSHOT

[hohwille]

bash-3.2$ ls -la "/Users/hohwille/projects/_ide/software/default/vscode/vscode/1.95.3/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron"
-rw-r--r--@ 1 hohwille  staff  51344 23 Nov 17:08 /Users/hohwille/projects/_ide/software/default/vscode/vscode/1.95.3/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron

[hohwille]

I manually added executable permissions with chmod a+x.
Then I ran vscode again and it failed due to Gatekeeper.
I manually approved with nasty workflow and admin password.
Then it still failed with a Popup that an unexpected error occured with option to report or cancel.
I reran with ide vscode and now got this:

ide vscode
Expected folder was not found at /Users/hohwille/projects/IDEasy/settings/vscode/workspace/setup
Start: Configuring workspace main for IDE vscode
Successfully ended step 'Configuring workspace main for IDE vscode'.
Step 'ide (vscode)' failed: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to copy /Users/hohwille/projects/_ide/software/default/vscode/vscode/1.95.3/.ide.software.version to /Users/hohwille/projects/_ide/software/default/vscode/vscode/1.95.3/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/.ide.software.version
 Step 'Install vscode (*)' failed: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to copy /Users/hohwille/projects/_ide/software/default/vscode/vscode/1.95.3/.ide.software.version to /Users/hohwille/projects/_ide/software/default/vscode/vscode/1.95.3/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/.ide.software.version
2 step(s) failed out of 3 steps.
An unexpected error occurred!
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Please check the error below, resolve it and try again.
If the error is not on your end (network connectivity, lack of permissions, etc.) please file a bug:
https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/new?assignees=&labels=bug&projects=&template=bug.md&title=IllegalStateException%3A+Failed+to+copy+%2FUsers%2Fhohwille%2Fprojects%2F_ide%2Fsoftware%2Fdefault%2Fvscode%2Fvscode%2F1.95.3%2F.ide.software.version+to+%2FUsers%2Fhohwille%2Fprojects%2F_ide%2Fsoftware%2Fdefault%2Fvscode%2Fvscode%2F1.95.3%2FVisual+Studio+Code.app%2FContents%2FResources%2Fapp%2F.ide.software.version
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to copy /Users/hohwille/projects/_ide/software/default/vscode/vscode/1.95.3/.ide.software.version to /Users/hohwille/projects/_ide/software/default/vscode/vscode/1.95.3/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/.ide.software.version
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.io.FileAccessImpl.copy(FileAccessImpl.java:352)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.LocalToolCommandlet.createToolInstallation(LocalToolCommandlet.java:393)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.LocalToolCommandlet.installTool(LocalToolCommandlet.java:220)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.LocalToolCommandlet.installTool(LocalToolCommandlet.java:186)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.LocalToolCommandlet.installTool(LocalToolCommandlet.java:171)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.LocalToolCommandlet.install(LocalToolCommandlet.java:85)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ToolCommandlet.runTool(ToolCommandlet.java:166)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ToolCommandlet.runTool(ToolCommandlet.java:152)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ide.IdeToolCommandlet.runTool(IdeToolCommandlet.java:55)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ToolCommandlet.run(ToolCommandlet.java:130)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ide.IdeToolCommandlet.run(IdeToolCommandlet.java:49)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.context.AbstractIdeContext.applyAndRun(AbstractIdeContext.java:860)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.context.AbstractIdeContext.run(AbstractIdeContext.java:767)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.cli.Ideasy.runOrThrow(Ideasy.java:89)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.cli.Ideasy.run(Ideasy.java:52)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.cli.Ideasy.main(Ideasy.java:29)
	at java.base@21.0.2/java.lang.invoke.LambdaForm$DMH/sa346b79c.invokeStaticInit(LambdaForm$DMH)
Caused by: java.nio.file.FileSystemException: /Users/hohwille/projects/_ide/software/default/vscode/vscode/1.95.3/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/.ide.software.version: Operation not permitted
	at java.base@21.0.2/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystem.copyFile(UnixFileSystem.java:668)
	at java.base@21.0.2/sun.nio.fs.BsdFileSystem.copyFile(BsdFileSystem.java:154)
	at java.base@21.0.2/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystem.copy(UnixFileSystem.java:1060)
	at java.base@21.0.2/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.copy(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:300)
	at java.base@21.0.2/java.nio.file.Files.copy(Files.java:1304)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.io.FileAccessImpl.copyRecursive(FileAccessImpl.java:372)
	at com.devonfw.tools.ide.io.FileAccessImpl.copy(FileAccessImpl.java:350)
	... 16 more

[hohwille]

The file /Users/hohwille/projects/_ide/software/default/vscode/vscode/1.95.3/.ide.software.version exists and contains the proper version.
But again we have a Gatekeeper issue (see #451):

cp /Users/hohwille/projects/_ide/software/default/vscode/vscode/1.95.3/.ide.software.version "/Users/hohwille/projects/_ide/sofdefault/vscode/vscode/1.95.3/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/.ide.software.version"
cp: /Users/hohwille/projects/_ide/software/default/vscode/vscode/1.95.3/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/.ide.software.version: Operation not permitted

So Gatekeeper does not allow us to copy a file into an application folder.

[hohwille]

[hohwille]

• Cannot start VSCode due to issue with Electron framework microsoft/vscode#220147
• v1.91 does not launch on Catalina or Big Sur due to Fatal error in V8 microsoft/vscode#219893

[hohwille]

I installed and tested vscode 1.19.1 that was supposed to be fixed and got this:

➜  Visual Studio Code.app ./Contents/Resources/app/bin/code
./Contents/Resources/app/bin/code: line 6: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory
./Contents/Resources/app/bin/code: line 10: ./MacOS/Electron: No such file or directory

What are the developers of vscode doing?
Sorry, but there is pretty much nothing that IDEasy can do about these problems.
Microsoft provides only broken releases of VSCode for MacOS.

[hohwille]

Running command '/Users/hohwille/projects/IDEasy/software/vscode/bin/code' using bash with arguments '--new-window' '--user-data-dir=/Users/hohwille/projects/IDEasy/workspaces/main/.vscode/.userdata' '--extensions-dir=/Users/hohwille/projects/IDEasy/plugins/vscode' '/Users/hohwille/projects/IDEasy/workspaces/main' '--force' '--install-extension' 'redhat.vscode-xml'
failed with exit code 127!
/Users/hohwille/projects/IDEasy/software/vscode/bin/code: line 6: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory
/Users/hohwille/projects/IDEasy/software/vscode/bin/code: line 10: ./MacOS/Electron: No such file or directory
Running command '/Users/hohwille/projects/IDEasy/software/vscode/bin/code' using bash with arguments '--new-window' '--user-data-dir=/Users/hohwille/projects/IDEasy/workspaces/main/.vscode/.userdata' '--extensions-dir=/Users/hohwille/projects/IDEasy/plugins/vscode' '/Users/hohwille/projects/IDEasy/workspaces/main' '--force' '--install-extension' 'redhat.vscode-xml'
failed with exit code 127!
Step 'Install plugin xml' ended with failure.

So in code they hardcoded that python must be located at /usr/bin/python.
That does not look very sane to me.