Packaging changes with Caiman

[pgunn]

Hello,
We're expecting to do a new Caiman release soon, and some packaging changes are expected:

1. For normal users of caiman, we're changing our recommendation to miniforge, a distribution that will not use Anaconda's defaults channel. If you're only using conda for caiman, this is an easy fix - remove conda entirely and install the miniforge distribution
2. For users on Windows, we have a new install path that uses a mix of conda and pip; this requirement is temporary and because of packaging issues with tensorflow on Windows, and you generally may run into more compatibility issues on Windows for the time being
3. We expect to land some changes underway sometime soon that will switch caiman from a tensorflow to a pytorch dependency; this (in combination with some upstream pytorch-on-Windows work) will let Windows users have the same install path as Linux/OSX users again
4. Longer-term we are likely to fully support pip as an alternative to Conda for users who prefer that route
5. Also longer-term we expect to split the library/computational parts of caiman from the notebook/GUI code, to make it easier for people to use caiman as a dependency for other software (and to make newer/different frontends easier to manage)

Reach out to me if you have any questions.