Bob version 2.0.0 beta 1 (immediately available)

[André Anjos]

Hello,

Short message: 

Bob v2.0.0b1 is out, installation: https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Installation. Please give feed back on this mailing list.

Longer message follows:

After nearly 1 year of development time, I'm very happy to announce to you the next generation of our Bob library for signal processing, machine learning and, of course, biometrics!

Version 2.0 contains an overhauled structure based on your feedback and our experience using and deploying Bob for our own research activities.

The first thing you'll notice is we are expanding installation possibilities by hosting the entirety of Bob on PyPI. This was possible thanks to a re-worked set of native Python bindings, which shall, in the near future, allows us to expand even further the number of supported features, external packages, operating systems and architectures.

So that you can focus on less dependencies and more on your problem, we have split Bob into smaller toolboxes with specialised functions. By combining one or more of those packages, you can easily create your own work environment, suiting your specific needs. 

Don't worry! As always, we continue to strive in quality with our nightly builds where all packages are checked against each other:

https://www.idiap.ch/software/bob/buildbot/waterfall

Here is the current list of all the packages using the Bob namespace:

https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Packages

As you'll notice, we now keep a even tighter control of the build and its quality not only globally, but also on a per-package basis. This should translate in less bugs and better quality control over time.

Want to give Bob v2 a spin? Here you'll find our new installation instructions:

https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Installation

If you have the time, please drop us an e-mail in this mailing list sharing your experience.

Reporting bugs should go through the individual packages. If unsure, please use our centralised issue tracker:

https://github.com/idiap/bob/issues

Finally, I'd like to thank the whole of the Idiap Biometrics team for working hard on this new version of Bob - it was far from easy to get all going. A special thanks goes to Manuel Günther who did not rest while there was work to do for this release.

Enjoy, André

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Dr. André Anjos
Idiap Research Institute
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http://andreanjos.org

[Manuel Günther]

Dear André,

thank you for announcing the new version of Bob.
I want to give just one remark about how to get the BETA versions of the Bob 2.0 packages from PyPI. Until we remove the BETA status of our packages, when you use Buildout, you have to specify:

$ ./bin/buildout buildout:prefer-final=false

on command line or write:

prefer-final = false

into your buildout.cfg configuration file. Otherwise, Buildout won't find the BETA versions, and might download older versions of some of the packages.

Enjoy Bobbing!
Manuel

[André Anjos]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Manuel Günther <siebe...@googlemail.com> wrote:

on command line or write:

prefer-final = false

Thanks Manuel, I have added this to the Installation wiki, so there we have all info to get you started.

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