Github user rawkintrevo commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/928
@felixcheung thanks. Apache Mahout is a kind of special case, in that
really we're a set of libraries that can run on currently Spark, Flink, H20
runners, and possible additionals ones (such as beam in the future). We are
however not super aggressive when it comes to supporting spark version changes
[MAHOUT-1889](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1889). But just
because a user chooses to use Spark 2.0, doesn't mean they can't play with
flink based Mahout.
Finally, when trying to write a 'traditional interpreter' the additional
dependencies were increasing the size of Zeppelin binary by about 200 MB. The
Python script is outside the box, but an elegeent solution to a unique problem
imho, and one that it may make sense for others to follow.
tg
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