Use version comparison to support pip >= 26.0 (including 27.x, 28.x)

Co-authored-by: Kaniska244 <[email protected]>

Author: Copilot

src/universal/test-project/test.sh

@@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ checkPythonPackageVersion "python" "requests" "2.31.0"
 
 ## Python -alternative version 3.11. Must be removed when pinned version 3.11 is updated to a different python version.
 checkPythonPackageVersion "/usr/local/python/3.11.*/bin/python" "setuptools" "78.1.1"
-check "pip-version-for-3.11" bash -c "/usr/local/python/3.11.*/bin/python -m pip --version | grep -E '26\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?'"
+pip_version_3_11=$(/usr/local/python/3.11.*/bin/python -m pip --version)
+check-version-ge "pip-version-for-3.11" "${pip_version_3_11}" "pip 26.0"
 
 ## Conda Python
 checkCondaPackageVersion "requests" "2.31.0"