distutils will disappear with Python 3.12: mesonpy ?

[picca]

While preparing the Debian package of hyperspy I have warning about the deprecated distutils modules.

mesonpy seems to the the best candidate to build and distribute Python extension. numpy, scipy, pyfai, python-fabio have already migrated to this build system.

Could you considere using this build system to allow a better support in our distributions.

thanks considering

Frédéric

[ericpre]

I have transferred the issue here, as the cython code of the bcf reader now lives here.

I am not sure distutils is needed anymore, as this is only used to check if a c-compiler is working and provide a nicer error message:
https://github.com/hyperspy/rosettasciio/blob/7f1612955640031a5634e51b3bc0a87b3e9a1dc7/setup.py#L92C1-L106