- Use spawn in stead of fork so that any jvm will not exist in any child processes and block them from stopping.

- Use poetry for install.

pyproject.toml

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+[tool.poetry]
+name = "tiffwrite"
+version = "2023.3.0"
+description = "Parallel tiff writer compatible with ImageJ."
+authors = ["Wim Pomp, Lenstra lab NKI <w.pomp@nki.nl>"]
+license = "GPLv3"
+readme = "README.md"
+packages = [{include = "tiffwrite"}]
+repository = "https://github.com/wimpomp/tiffwrite"
+classifiers = [
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+]
+
+[tool.poetry.dependencies]
+python = "^3.7"
+tifffile = "*"
+numpy = "*"
+tqdm = "*"
+colorcet = "*"
+matplotlib = "*"
+
+[tool.poetry.group.test.dependencies]
+pytest = "*"
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["poetry-core"]
+build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"