Downloading MODIS HDF files is not working when GDAL is not installed

[kalxas]

I have tried to use master to download some files on Ubuntu Xenial.
Installation through pip fails due to GDAL, I had to remove GDAL from setup.py
But then, I find that download function is not working because of this:
https://github.com/lucadelu/pyModis/blob/master/pymodis/__init__.py#L5-L6
I had to comment out those lines to get download working again.

[lucadelu]

Yes in that two modules GDAL is mandatory, could we change the setup.py with a try condition? Maybe someone could need only download and MRT capabilities

[kalxas]

@lucadelu does this library work with GDAL 2.x?
I tested with python-gdal 2.1.0 and did not seem to recognize it.

[lucadelu]

@kalxas yes, I have python-gdal 2.1.0 and I have no problem

[kalxas]

@lucadelu which OS are you on?

[lucadelu]

@kalxas I'm on Debian testing

[kalxas]

Thanks, will look into it

[lucadelu]

I added this test be24b5b, problably we could close this ticket

[kalxas]

Thanks.