installation: htcondor 8.9.2 not installable anymore

[tiborsimko]

While working on reanahub/reana#282, I noticed that our HTC builds are not working anymore:

$ pip install 'htcondor==8.9.2'
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement htcondor==8.9.2 (from versions: 8.9.6a1)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for htcondor==8.9.2

We should quickly update and test the HTC dependencies.

[khurtado]

Does the latest8.9.6 in pip work for you?

For us, 8.9.2 has a bug in one of the Submit methods that wasn't present in 8.9.1, so we kept in 8.9.1. However, this bug was fixed in 8.9.3+ versions, should we test the latest and fix it there?

Note pip3 shows me all mentioned versions as available though `8.9.1, 8.9.2, etc)

pip3 install htcondor==
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement htcondor== (from versions: 8.7.3rc3, 8.7.4rc1, 8.7.6, 8.7.7, 8.7.8, 8.7.9rc3, 8.7.9, 8.7.10rc1, 8.7.10, 8.8.0, 8.8.1, 8.8.2, 8.8.3, 8.8.4, 8.8.5, 8.8.6, 8.8.7, 8.8.8, 8.9.0, 8.9.1, 8.9.2b1, 8.9.2, 8.9.3b1, 8.9.3b2, 8.9.3b3, 8.9.3.post1, 8.9.4b1, 8.9.4, 8.9.5, 8.9.6a1, 8.9.6a2, 8.9.6)

[tiborsimko]

Note pip3 shows me all mentioned versions as available though `8.9.1, 8.9.2, etc)

Aha, thanks, on this side of the pond I'm seeing (with python 3.8.2 and pip 20.0.2) only the following right now:

$ pip install htcondor==
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement htcondor== (from versions: 8.9.6a1, 8.9.6a2, 8.9.7a1)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for htcondor==

But with e.g. python 2.7.17 and pip 20.0.2 I'm seeing older versions too.

I also checked (htcondor files on PyPI)[https://pypi.org/project/htcondor/#files], but only newer ones were available there.

Looks like we need to run tests on older Python 3.6 locally until the support for Python 3.8 in the upstream htcondor package fully stabilises?!