add better support for conda

[akhanf]

Currently we are using poetry for dependency management, but could be nice to also add direct support for conda (e.g. avoiding problems as in #168).

Could:

• create a conda environment file for hippunfold as a whole (using conda packages where available)
• add hippunfold to conda-forge

With conda-forge could perhaps even package binaries for the external dependencies.. Something to consider..

[jordandekraker]

Just wanted to bump this as discussed in our devs meeting

(June 4, 2024)

Nighres may be challenging but not too bad: nighres/nighres#173

I'll try to play around with this too when i get the chance :)

[akhanf]

Great!

I have a basic set of recipes in order to get the snakebids conda package built, just need to revisit it:
https://github.com/akhanf/conda-snakebids-builds

And it looks like all our other dependencies are in conda packages already (though may need to confirm versions):
https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/niftyreg
https://anaconda.org/aramislab/ants
https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/convert3d
https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/imagemagick
https://anaconda.org/bioconda/connectome-workbench

[akhanf]

DJay is making good progress on this, and should be feasible for v2.0 either with leaving out equivolumetric coords or re-implementing..