PEP 632: Python 3.12 Incompatible with Distutils

[ssolson]

Python 3.12.0 shipped Oct 2 2023.

As per PEP 632 disutils no longer works with the latest stable version of python.
https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/

Are there plans to address this incompatibility?

h5pyd/h5pyd/version.py

Line 15 in 094f0b2

from distutils.version import StrictVersion as _sv

[jreadey]

Yes I’m planning to get to this in the next few weeks. Went through a similar excessive with the hsds setup