Require MNE 1.0 or above

[rob-luke]

There are a number of places in the code where we have something like remove once MNE 1.0 is required.
I would like to enforce that MNE 1.0+ is required for MNE-NIRS to reduce the required maintenance.
What are your thoughts on this @larsoner? I know MNE-Python gives longer support, but these side packages don't have the same size development team.

[larsoner]

Most downstream mne- packages only support the latest release and main. So you could bump to 1.1 already here

[rob-luke]

Awesome, I will make a note about that in the docs and pull out that code as I see it.

[rob-luke]

Most downstream mne- packages only support the latest release and main

Great, when MNE-Python 1.4 is released lets add this constraint to the requirements and environment.yml files.

When is the next MNE release roughly scheduled @larsoner ? (I should also get back on discord, sorry)

[larsoner]

In the next week or two

[rob-luke]

Well, that's just worked out dandy then ;)
Good time for some spring cleaning in MNE-NIRS too then.