In addition to removing projects that are no longer developed from the Groovy Windows installer (Gpars, Gaelyk, Scriptom, EasyB, Gant, GMock), I'm considering removing the exe files from groovy-native-launcher <https://github.com/groovy/groovy-native-launcher>. These haven't been compiled in quite a while and are just another thing to maintain. As I see it, there are two primary benefits these provide.
1. Provide a way to create file associations so you can double click a Groovy file, or run myFile.groovy instead of groovy myFile.groovy. 2. Hide the command window when launching GroovyConsole. For #2, I can work around this with a VBScript file (or NirCmd). #1 doesn't have a good way to solve other than the current native binary solution since Launch4J doesn't support variable expansion <https://sourceforge.net/p/launch4j/bugs/162/>. My question is, do many folks need this functionality? It's something I've never personally used. Please weigh in with your thoughts. -Keegan
