v2+: a major update with a new GUI and Python 3.12+ support

• a major update with Python 3.12+ support, the new CM automation recipes and a new GUI to compose modular AI systems and optimize
  them across diverse models, datasets, software and hardware:

• https://access.cknowledge.org/playground/?action=scripts
• https://access.cknowledge.org/playground/?action=howtorun
• https://access.cknowledge.org/playground/?action=reproduce

• added setuptools as dependency to detect package versions