Move away from distutils

With Python 3.11 release around the corner, the project needs to consider that distutils will be removed in 3.12 https://docs.python.org/3/library/distutils.html

Considering that the setuptools modules contains a copy of it under _distutils, a previous set of patches was merged to move most of the functionality away, but there are still some usages that needs to be addressed, like:

• distutils.log
• distutils.errors.DistutilsSetupError
• distutils.sysconfig
• distutils.msvc9compiler
• distutils.command.build
• distutils.cmd
  and a few others.

The initial effort was done based on the Migration Advise section of the PEP related to the deprecation of distutils: https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/#migration-advice but there were still a few things that have no equivalent, and needs to have a local implementation, like distutils.log.