🐛[bug] det CLI tool errors on Python 3.12 because it relies on distutils which was deprecated in Python 3.10

[sirredbeard]

Describe the bug

The det CLI tool produces an error that distuils is not found when run on Python 3.12.

distutils was depcreated in Python 3.10 and removed in 3.12.

Reproduction Steps

1. Install Python 3.12
2. Install Determined with pip install determined
3. Run det --version

Expected Behavior

Determined client works on 3.12. Even if 3.12 is not yet supported, we should plan for deprecation of distutils.

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Environment

• Device or hardware: Windows Dev Kit 2023
• OS: Windows 11 Beta Insiders
• Browser: Edge
• Version: 0.26.7

Additional Context

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[sirredbeard]

The temporary workaround on 3.12 is to pip install setuputils.

[rb-determined-ai]

Yeah, this has been coming. We can either change our CLI flag reading logic to something more standard ("non-empty flag means true, empty flag means false"), which is a breaking change, or reimplement the one-line function that we were using from distutils.

I'll create a ticket for this internally.

[rb-determined-ai]

The fix is up: #8667