I have lately installed the latest version of Bob (particularly, the package bob.bio.face) (9.0) using conda and following the installation instructions. This automatically installed python version 3.8. When I try to run
bob bio pipelines vanilla-biometrics arface gabor_graph
I get the error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bob.db.arface'
So, I try to install bob.db.arface: conda install bob.db.arface. For some reason, this wants to install a whole new python version (3.7), and reinstall all bob packages.
Looking at the pipelines of bob.db.arface (https://gitlab.idiap.ch/bob/bob.db.arface/pipelines/45435), I can see that only python 3.6 and 3.7 is supported. It seems to be that this is true for many of the bob.db packages. Will there be versions for python 3.8 available, or do I need to downgrade to python 3.7?
In the new release of bob we deprecated all database packages and porting them one by one (once we have the time for it) to the new database interface (https://gitlab.idiap.ch/bob/bob.bio.face/-/issues/54).
If you want to use the old bob.dbs and the legacy database support (https://www.idiap.ch/software/bob/docs/bob/bob.bio.base/stable/legacy.html), please, rely on bob for py37.
Cheers