Are gdal and pytables incompatible?

[emthompson-usgs]

Issue:
Hi @ocefpaf, thanks for the info and help with #213. I've been trying to resolve this issue by restricting to only conda forge channels but conda seems to reach out to defaults anyway. I think I narrowed it down to a problem with the interacting dependencies of gdal and pytables. Since it looks like you are also a maintainer of both packages I thought you would potentially be able to help.

I've taken the example you used in #213 and added pytables:

conda create -y -n GDALTABLES -c conda-forge python=3.5 gdal pytables 
conda activate GDALTABLES
python -c 'from osgeo import osr'

which gives the same error as before.

Environment (conda list):

$ conda list
blosc                     1.14.0                        1    conda-forge
boost-cpp                 1.67.0               h3a22d5f_0    conda-forge
bzip2                     1.0.6                         1    conda-forge
ca-certificates           2018.4.16                     0    conda-forge
cairo                     1.14.12              he56eebe_3    conda-forge
certifi                   2018.4.16                py35_0    conda-forge
clangdev                  6.0.0                 default_0    conda-forge
curl                      7.60.0               h93b3f91_0    conda-forge
expat                     2.2.5                hfc679d8_1    conda-forge
fontconfig                2.13.0               h074f895_3    conda-forge
freetype                  2.8.1                         0    conda-forge
freexl                    1.0.5                hf837533_1    conda-forge
gdal                      2.2.4                    py35_0    conda-forge
geos                      3.6.2                hfc679d8_2    conda-forge
gettext                   0.19.8.1                      0    conda-forge
giflib                    5.1.4                h470a237_0    conda-forge
glib                      2.55.0                        0    conda-forge
hdf4                      4.2.13                        0    conda-forge
hdf5                      1.10.1                        2    conda-forge
icu                       58.2                 hfc679d8_0    conda-forge
intel-openmp              2018.0.3                      0
jpeg                      9c                   h470a237_0    conda-forge
json-c                    0.13.1               h470a237_0    conda-forge
kealib                    1.4.8                hfc679d8_0    conda-forge
krb5                      1.14.6                        0    conda-forge
libcurl                   7.61.0               hf30b1f0_0
libcxx                    6.0.0                         0    conda-forge
libdap4                   3.19.1                        0    conda-forge
libffi                    3.2.1                         3    conda-forge
libgdal                   2.2.4                h390fe88_1
libgfortran               3.0.1                h93005f0_2
libiconv                  1.15                 h470a237_1    conda-forge
libkml                    1.3.0                hccc92b1_8    conda-forge
libnetcdf                 4.4.1.1                      10    conda-forge
libopenblas               0.2.20               hdc02c5d_7
libpng                    1.6.34               ha92aebf_1    conda-forge
libpq                     10.3                 hf30b1f0_0
libspatialite             4.3.0a              h0a2fa02_18
libssh2                   1.8.0                h5b517e9_2    conda-forge
libtiff                   4.0.9                he6b73bb_1    conda-forge
libxml2                   2.9.8                h422b904_2    conda-forge
llvm-meta                 6.0.0                         0    conda-forge
llvmdev                   6.0.0                 default_4    conda-forge
mkl                       2018.0.3                      1
mkl_fft                   1.0.4                    py35_0    conda-forge
mkl_random                1.0.1                    py35_0    conda-forge
ncurses                   6.1                           0    conda-forge
numexpr                   2.6.5                    py35_0    conda-forge
numpy                     1.14.3           py35h9bb19eb_2
numpy-base                1.14.3           py35h7ef55bc_1
openjpeg                  2.3.0                h316dc23_3    conda-forge
openssl                   1.0.2o                        0    conda-forge
pcre                      8.42                 h378b8a2_0
pip                       18.0                     py35_0    conda-forge
pixman                    0.34.0                        2    conda-forge
poppler                   0.67.0               hb55ee21_0    conda-forge
poppler-data              0.4.9                         0    conda-forge
proj4                     4.9.3                         5    conda-forge
pytables                  3.4.4                    py35_8    conda-forge
python                    3.5.5                h5001a0f_2    conda-forge
readline                  7.0                  haf1bffa_1    conda-forge
setuptools                40.0.0                   py35_0    conda-forge
six                       1.11.0                   py35_1    conda-forge
sqlite                    3.24.0               h2f33b56_0    conda-forge
tk                        8.6.8                         0    conda-forge
wheel                     0.31.1                   py35_0    conda-forge
xerces-c                  3.2.1                h5d6a6da_1    conda-forge
xz                        5.2.4                h1de35cc_4
zlib                      1.2.11               h470a237_3    conda-forge

Details about conda and system ( conda info ):

$ conda info
     active environment : GDALTABLES
    active env location : /Users/emthompson/miniconda/envs/GDALTABLES
            shell level : 1
       user config file : /Users/emthompson/.condarc
 populated config files : /Users/emthompson/.condarc
          conda version : 4.5.4
    conda-build version : not installed
         python version : 3.6.5.final.0
       base environment : /Users/emthompson/miniconda  (writable)
           channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/osx-64
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
          package cache : /Users/emthompson/miniconda/pkgs
                          /Users/emthompson/.conda/pkgs
       envs directories : /Users/emthompson/miniconda/envs
                          /Users/emthompson/.conda/envs
               platform : osx-64
             user-agent : conda/4.5.4 requests/2.18.4 CPython/3.6.5 Darwin/16.7.0 OSX/10.12.6
                UID:GID : 176539137:176539137
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False

[ocefpaf]

They are not incompatible but we are facing some issues at the moment. I'm re-build packages and hopefully this will be sorted out by the end of the day.

[ocefpaf]

This should be fixed now that pytables was rebuild. Please let me know if that is working for you.

[emthompson-usgs]

Yes, it works now. Thanks!