setup.py chokes on required pkgconfig about h5pyd

[NLaws]

Could be related to pypa/setuptools#1320 - the project requires python 2.7.13.

[NLaws]

This appears to be a mac os specific issue with SSL certificates. I was able to solve it by installing python 2.7.15, running the included "Install Certificates.command", and virtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python env. (The -p /usr/local/bin/python is necessary, as it appears that virtualenv uses the system python by default - which is version 2.7.10 on my mac).

Make sure that python --version is 2.7.15 after install.

Finally, you might have to force pip to upgrade to version 10 if you get a warning about using version 9:
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python