[Feature]: Refactors and improvements

[CodyCBakerPhD]

What would you like to see added to the NWBInspector?

Planning out the next couple of months of work on this package in combination with training @stephprince, here is a list of items that could use updating or general improvement (such as a requirement for major bug fix)

• use pyproject.toml build pattern
• use sklearn import structuring (with better organization of submodule contents, such as breaking up all the config related stuff in nwbinspector.nwbinspector)
• use remfile for streaming instead of ros3 or fsspec (though Zarr may still need fsspec?)
• location of InspectorMessage should be clarified as location_in_file
• fix typing of file_path on https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwbinspector/blob/dev/src/nwbinspector/register_checks.py#L79 to include None
• We decided in a previous LBNL meeting that NWB Inspector should only support latest PyNWB. Blocks of code relying on past versions of PyNWB can now be removed, such as https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwbinspector/blob/dev/src/nwbinspector/nwbinspector.py#L576-L586

More to follow over the coming weeks

Do you have any interest in helping implement the feature?

Yes.

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[CodyCBakerPhD]

location of InspectorMessage should be clarified as location_in_file

@stephprince Would you mind making a separate issue for this one specific renaming subtask? (should also probably be done in backwards compatible way)

Then I can close this issue with my final PR (updating annotations)