Fix ci-rai-core-flask: pip 25.x compatibility and artifact upload conflicts

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CI pipeline failing on multiple fronts: pip-compile errors with pip 25.x, and artifact upload conflicts (409) from 7 parallel matrix jobs uploading to identical artifact names.

Changes

pip-tools compatibility

• Pin pip<25 in workflow - pip-tools 7.1.0 breaks with pip 25.x API changes (make_resolver() signature)
• Verified with pip 24.3.1, all 8 tests pass

Matrix cleanup

• Remove ubuntu-20.04 (deprecated/unavailable)
• Simplify exclusion rules

Artifact naming

# Before: static names → conflicts
name: requirements-dev-comp.txt
name: rai_core_flask-code-coverage-results

# After: unique per matrix job
name: requirements-dev-comp-${{ matrix.operatingSystem }}-py${{ matrix.pythonVersion }}
name: rai_core_flask-code-coverage-${{ matrix.operatingSystem }}-py${{ matrix.pythonVersion }}

7 matrix jobs (ubuntu/macos/windows × py3.9/3.10/3.11 with exclusions) now upload to distinct artifacts without conflicts.

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 70.18%. Comparing base (5317d7a) to head (c93895c).

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Pull request overview

This PR addresses CI pipeline failures by fixing pip 25.x compatibility issues and resolving artifact upload conflicts from parallel matrix jobs. The changes update minimum Python support from 3.7-3.8 to 3.9-3.11 across all packages in the repository, along with corresponding dependency and workflow updates.

Changes:

• Pin pip<25 in CI workflow to maintain compatibility with pip-tools 7.1.0
• Update Python version requirements from >=3.7 to >=3.9 across all setup.py files
• Add scipy upper bound constraints (<1.14 or <1.15) to prevent breaking changes
• Fix artifact naming conflicts by making names unique per matrix job combination
• Update all CI workflows to use Python 3.9-3.11 matrix versions
• Add conditional PyTorch/dependency installation logic for Python 3.11 support
• Remove deprecated ubuntu-20.04 from CI matrix

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 29 out of 29 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

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File	Description
responsibleai_vision/setup.py	Update python_requires to >=3.9 and classifiers to 3.9/3.10/3.11
responsibleai_vision/requirements.txt	Add scipy<1.14 upper bound, update Pillow to >=10.0.0, remove Python 3.7 conditionals
responsibleai_text/setup.py	Update python_requires to >=3.9 and classifiers to 3.9/3.10/3.11
responsibleai_text/requirements.txt	Add scipy<1.14 upper bound and Pillow>=10.0.0
responsibleai/setup.py	Update python_requires to >=3.9 and add 3.11 classifier
raiwidgets/setup.py	Update python_requires to >=3.9 and add 3.11 classifier
raiwidgets/requirements.txt	Add scipy<1.14 upper bound
raiutils/setup.py	Update python_requires to >=3.9, remove 3.7/3.8 classifiers
rai_test_utils/setup.py	Update python_requires to >=3.9, remove 3.7/3.8 classifiers
rai_core_flask/setup.py	Add python_requires>=3.9, remove 3.7/3.8 classifiers
nlp_feature_extractors/setup.py	Add python_requires>=3.9 and update classifiers
erroranalysis/setup.py	Update python_requires to >=3.9, remove 3.7/3.8 classifiers
.github/workflows/release-*.yml	Update python-version from 3.8 to 3.9 in all release workflows
.github/workflows/CI-responsibleai-text-vision-pytest.yml	Update matrix to 3.9/3.10/3.11, add Python 3.11 PyTorch logic, add Pillow/scipy pins
.github/workflows/CI-raiwidgets-pytest.yml	Add Node.js caching, macOS Node path fixes, scipy pin
.github/workflows/CI-rai_core_flask-pytest.yml	Pin pip<25, update matrix to 3.9/3.10/3.11, fix artifact naming conflicts, remove ubuntu-20.04
.github/workflows/CI-notebook*.yml	Update matrices to support 3.11, add Python 3.11 PyTorch logic, add Pillow upgrade
.github/workflows/CI-e2e-notebooks*.yml	Update matrices to 3.9/3.10/3.11, add PyTorch conditionals, add Pillow pins
.github/workflows/CI-codescan.yml	Update CodeQL actions from v1 to v3

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[Copilot]

The scipy version constraint is inconsistent across the repository. While this file sets scipy to <1.14, responsibleai/requirements.txt uses <1.15. The upper bound should be consistent across all packages to avoid dependency conflicts. Consider aligning all scipy constraints to use the same upper bound.

Suggested change

	scipy>=1.4.1,<1.14
	scipy>=1.4.1,<1.15

[Copilot]

The scipy version constraint is inconsistent across the repository. While this file sets scipy to <1.14, responsibleai/requirements.txt uses <1.15. The upper bound should be consistent across all packages to avoid dependency conflicts. Consider aligning all scipy constraints to use the same upper bound.

Suggested change

	scipy>=1.4.1,<1.14
	scipy>=1.4.1,<1.15

[Copilot]

The conditional check still references Python 3.8, but the matrix no longer includes Python 3.8 (it only includes 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11). This condition should be simplified to remove the redundant check for 3.8, or changed to check for all matrix Python versions in a cleaner way. Consider replacing this with a simpler condition since the step should run for all Python versions in the matrix.

Suggested change

	- if: ${{ matrix.pythonVersion == '3.8' || matrix.pythonVersion == '3.9' || matrix.pythonVersion == '3.10' || matrix.pythonVersion == '3.11' }}
	name: Setup tools for python gte 3.8
	- name: Setup tools for python gte 3.8

[Copilot]

The scipy version constraint is inconsistent across the repository. While this file sets scipy to <1.14, other files in the same PR set it to <1.14 (responsibleai_vision, responsibleai_text, raiwidgets) and responsibleai/requirements.txt uses <1.15. The upper bound should be consistent across all packages to avoid dependency conflicts. Consider aligning all scipy constraints to use the same upper bound.

Suggested change

	scipy>=1.4.1,<1.14
	scipy>=1.4.1,<1.15