PR: Replace deprecated distutils and pipes modules

[juliangilbey]

This addresses the points I made in #349 (comment) replacing pipes with shlex and distutils with setuptools and looseversion.

This patch can be applied after #349, but the package will not build without the updates there.

[dalthviz]

Thanks @juliangilbey for your work here! I'm updating the PR with master via the GitHub interface to have CI checks but from a quick glance, maybe the addition of a new dependecy for LooseVersion could be discussed (I'm fine with a new dependency but maybe that check where is used could be removed 🤔 what do you think about that @ccordoba12 ?) and something that maybe could be worthy to add here too is CI with Python 3.13. Other than that this looks good to me 👍

Let us know if you want to further work on this or if it is okay for us to take over and push this forward!

[juliangilbey]

Thanks @juliangilbey for your work here! I'm updating the PR with master via the GitHub interface to have CI checks but from a quick glance, maybe the addition of a new dependecy for LooseVersion could be discussed (I'm fine with a new dependency but maybe that check where is used could be removed 🤔 what do you think about that @ccordoba12 ?) and something that maybe could be worthy to add here too is CI with Python 3.13. Other than that this looks good to me 👍

Let us know if you want to further work on this or if it is okay for us to take over and push this forward!

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for picking this up! I've been totally overwhelmed with work in recent months and sadly have no time to work on this at the moment. I'm really happy for you to take over :)

Best wishes,

Julian

[ccordoba12]

I'm fine with a new dependency but maybe that check where is used could be removed 🤔 what do you think about that @ccordoba12 ?

Yeah, it can. It's checking for a version greater than Mac 10.15, which is really old now. So, please remove it.

[ccordoba12]

Thanks @juliangilbey and @dalthviz!