Build shared extensions without distutils #93939
Description
Feature or enhancement
distutils is deprecated and is scheduled to be removed from Python 3.12. PyPA setuptools replaces distutils and provides shims for distutils package.
GH-90005 tracks effort to use configure.ac, Makefile, and makesetup to build almost all shared extensions without distutils. Only a handful of modules have not been ported yet
- _curses
- _curses_panel
- _ctypes, see gh-90005: Port _ctypes to PY_STDLIB_MOD #32229
- _dbm
- readline