Distutils is deprecated in Python 3.10 and removed in Python 3.12

[rsyring]

https://docs.python.org/3/library/distutils.html

[guruofgentoo]

This is interesting, as I have a couple of python 3.12 projects running the commands that use this without an issue. I wonder if it's setuptools or something else that's putting a shim in place to keep it working.

Either way, if we drop our direct usage here, use of the Babel command base class will fail next. We'll need to make more than the simple adjustment to get this running as expected.