Update to accommodate deprecation of distutils and move of same into setup tools

[joseph-wortmann]

As of 3.10 distutils direct import is deprecated and will throw warnings. As of 3.12 It will be removed entirely.

We need to adjust this package to use the imports from setuptools.

[joseph-wortmann]

As per https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/deprecated/distutils-legacy.html