release to conda-forge
As mentioned in https://github.com/scverse/napari-spatialdata/issues/67, it would be nice to distribute via conda-forge. I can have a look to see how easy that will be (haven't checked availability of deps on conda-forge).
I had a look at our deps and it looks like spatial-image and multiscale-spatial-image are the only dependencies currently not available via conda-forge. I've made a request over there to see if we can help put those up on conda-forge. Should be straight forward after that.
https://github.com/spatial-image/spatial-image/issues/18
Can I suggest to put the package on bioconda instead of conda-forge? They both share the same namespace, but bioconda has the added advantage, that packages on bioconda get an automatic docker container created on each release on biocontainers.
So by putting the package on bioconda instead of conda-forge, you get free docker containerization. I also do think, that since spatialdata is mostly dealing with biological imaging data, it fits the requirement of being biology focused for bioconda.
There were some dependencies conflicts that have now been resolved so today a new conda release is available 🎉
@FloWuenne for the moment the conda-forge system is setup and we have limited time so I'd prefer not to try bioconda. Anyway, we could have a job to build the docker container manually.