there are too type of wheels:

• the small ones (<25Mo) contains only a few packages, to the opposite of the big ones (>500 Mo):

Python | 3.8.5 | Python programming language with standard library
msvc_runtime | 14.26.28720 | Install the Microsoft™ Visual C++™ runtime DLLs to the sys.prefix and Scripts directories
pip | 20.1.1 | The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.
setuptools | 49.2.0 | Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages
sqlite_bro | 0.9.1 | a graphic SQLite Client in 1 Python file
wheel | 0.34.2 | A built-package format for Python

• yet they have the shortcut to JupyterLab, Qtconsole ready if you install them later.

o a small one, you can click on "WinPython Command Prompt" and type, as an example:

pip install pyside2 pyzo Jupyterlab

the WinPythonControlPanel depends of Qt, so will work after ou install pyside2 (or Pyqt5) ... waiting for voluntaries to provide a tcl/tk version or a webversion (unless standard pip does progress on this)

I'm gonna chime in on this one as well. I've tried on a clean Win 10 Pro running in VirtualBox as well, and it's a no-go. Nothing will start, except the executables for the shells.

I've spent a couple of hours investigating the various scripts to figure out what's going on, but I'm just gonna give up. There's too much spaghetti.

Running the pip command above does however fix the issue with "WinPython Control Panel.exe" not starting, but beyond that nothing else gets solved.

I've had a look at some of the bat scripts, and there are lots of stuff pointing to non-existing executables and such. For example. the ".\scripts\spyder.bat" script wants to launch a file by the name %WINPYDIR%\scripts\spyder3.exe, but there is no such exe file in that directory (or in any other directory for that matter, except the root dir)

Suggestion to either remove the additional launchers from the dot distributable, or replace them with install scripts to install the additional components. Leaving them in just adds needless confusion. I personally tried to get it working, and wasted quite some time, before I realized that is was an issue with the launcher.

Also: it would be useful to update https://github.com/winpython/winpython/wiki/Included-Programs with the correct info with regards to the included programs and differences between the cod, dot and normal distributions.

The launchers are all there because they hard to create dynamically, as they use nullsoft technology that is not on the user's pc

Hello,
I understand but perhaps a readme file could be helpful ?
e.g. to install spyder, pip install spyder etc.
Thanks

Does a requirements file exist where all the package versions from the complete release are listed? This would be great to be able to add packages to dot having the same version as in the big release.

In last version 2025-02, you have a requirement file with hash-256 , if you want to install directly the wheels

https://github.com/winpython/winpython/releases/tag/15.3.20250425final