windows-installer.yml has built nothing since client/ was deleted (0.5.189, #471) — its UberJar step fails on every main push and the run still reads success

[emooreatx]

.github/workflows/windows-installer.yml runs on every push to main and every tag (and on PRs under ci:full). Its first real step, Build CIRIS Desktop UberJar, does cd client && ./gradlew :desktopApp:packageUberJarForCurrentOS. client/ was deleted in 0.5.189 (#471 — the client is the ciris-client[node] PyPI package now), so the step has failed on every run since, every downstream step (wheel, PyInstaller, Inno Setup) is skipped, and no Windows installer has been produced since that cut.

The run-level conclusion still shows success on main and on tags (the job fails, the run does not), so nothing surfaced it. It surfaced on PR #561 only because ci:full runs the job on a PR, where the rollup shows the job's own conclusion: FAILURE.

Evidence: main run 34154975707 (ed2ccb5) — job Windows desktop installer: failure, step Build CIRIS Desktop UberJar: failure (cd: client: No such file or directory), every later step skipped; same shape on v0.5.201 run 34154993444 and on 34145707043.

What #561 does: disables the job with the reason in the file so a ci:full PR reads truthfully. What this issue asks: decide whether the Windows desktop installer is still a deliverable — if yes, rebuild the job around the PyPI client (pip install ciris-client[node] into the PyInstaller bundle instead of the vendored Gradle tree); if no, delete the workflow.

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[emooreatx]

PR #566 rebuilds the job around the client package: the Gradle setup and the two client/ steps go; after pip install of the server wheel a step asks ciris_client.artifact_path('desktop-uber-jar') where the JAR is; the PyInstaller spec collects ciris_client's data and modules; the stage check asserts the JAR rode along; jlink trims against that JAR. Proof run (workflow_dispatch on the branch): https://github.com/CIRISAI/CIRISServer/actions/runs/34226383277. continue-on-error stays for this PR and comes off in a follow-up once one artifact is green.