Cannot use brainiak with osx-arm

Summary of what happened:

I just got a MacBook Air that uses the M2 silicon chip. I tried to create a new conda environment for an fMRI analysis that involves brainiak functions. However, it does not appear that brainiak currently supports the M2 chip (osx-arm).

Command used (and if a helper script was used, a link to the helper script or the command generated):

conda install -c brainiak -c defaults -c conda-forge brainiak

Environment (Docker, Singularity / Apptainer, custom installation):

conda environment (creating using miniforge)

Relevant log outputs (up to 20 lines):

Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): | WARNING conda.models.version:get_matcher(546): Using .* with relational operator is superfluous and deprecated and will be removed in a future version of conda. Your spec was 1.8.0.*, but conda is ignoring the .* and treating it as 1.8.0
WARNING conda.models.version:get_matcher(546): Using .* with relational operator is superfluous and deprecated and will be removed in a future version of conda. Your spec was 1.9.0.*, but conda is ignoring the .* and treating it as 1.9.0
done
Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.

PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:

  - brainiak::brainiak

Current channels:

  - https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/osx-arm64
  - https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/osx-arm64
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/osx-arm64
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch

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Hi @avannucci,

Does installing with pip work? Can you use Docker instead? If you want a developer to make binaries for the Mac ARM chips, you should post an issue on the software GitHub repo instead.

Best,
Steven