GitHub user khalidhuseynov opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/3084
[zeppelin-3639] Add Ipython interpreter prerequisite check for protobuf ### What is this PR for? This is to protobuf prerequisite check when starting ipython kernel. This is required since from grpcio 1.12.0 it's independent from protobuf ### What type of PR is it? [ Improvement ] ### Todos * [x] - add protobuf prerequisite check * [x] - add to ipython docs ### What is the Jira issue? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN-3639 ### How should this be tested? 1. remove grpcio and protobuf 2. install latest grpcio and try to run ipython interpreter - should fail 3. then install protobuf and try again - should work ### Screenshots (if appropriate) ### Questions: * Does the licenses files need update? * Is there breaking changes for older versions? * Does this needs documentation? You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/khalidhuseynov/zeppelin fix/ZEPPELIN-3639 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/3084.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #3084 ---- commit 58c06898b7d78790f153dfea9912acf1d837a5c8 Author: Khalid Huseynov <khalidhnv@...> Date: 2018-07-19T06:47:53Z add protobuf prerequsite check commit 066e061d25d0066102818eb57a97840cece77ad5 Author: Khalid Huseynov <khalidhnv@...> Date: 2018-07-19T07:03:58Z fix ipython documentation ---- ---