I know that I’m not a contributor, but the local option allowed me to get into the use of Mahout without a lot of upfront cost. Please don’t lose site of acquiring new users of Mahout - the local install is a key part of that process.
SCott > On Mar 19, 2016, at 11:01 PM, Andrew Musselman <andrew.mussel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > We're discussing removing the MAHOUT_LOCAL option in order to trim artifact > sizes. > > If you think keeping the option to use MAHOUT_LOCAL for testing with the > single-node mode of Hadoop is important please let us know. It can be handy > for trying things out but it would be nice to ditch the effort required to > maintain it. > > See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1705 for more context. > > Thanks!
