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Closes#35849
PiperOrigin-RevId: 607144827
### Background
* `distutils` is deprecated with removal planned for Python 3.12
([pep-0632](https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/)), thus we're trying to
replace all distutils usage with setuptools.
* Please note that user still have access to `distutils` if setuptools
is installed and `SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS` is set to `local` (The
default in setuptools, more details can be found [in this
discussion](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2806#issuecomment-1193336591)).
### How we decide the replacement
* We're following setuptools [Porting from Distutils
guide](https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/deprecated/distutils-legacy.html#porting-from-distutils)
when deciding the replacement.
#### Replacement not mentioned in the guide
* Replaced `distutils.utils.get_platform()` with
`sysconfig.get_platform()`.
* Based on the [answer
here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71664875/what-is-the-replacement-for-distutils-util-get-platform),
and also checked the document that `sysconfig.get_platform()` is good
enough for our use cases.
* Replaced `DistutilsOptionError` with `OptionError`.
* `setuptools.error` is exporting it as `OptionError` [in the
code](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/v59.6.0/setuptools/errors.py).
* Upgrade `setuptools` in `test_packages.sh` and changed the version
ping to `59.6.0` in `build_artifact_python.bat`.
* `distutils.errors.*` is not fully re-exported until `59.0.0` (See
[this issue](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2698) for more
details).
### Changes not included in this PR
* We're patching some compiler related functions provided by distutils
in our code
([example](ee4efc31c1/src/python/grpcio/_spawn_patch.py (L30))),
but since `setuptools` doesn't have similar interface (See [this issue
for more details](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2806)), we
don't have a clear path to replace them yet.
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* Support musllinux binary wheels
* Skip aarach64 for now
* Consolidate the difference of mktemp
* Extend linux artifact building time && install bash for distribtest
* Stop using grpc.tools, use grpc_tools
* Update the README to use grpc_tools
* Force static link libc++ for alpine binaries
* Rebase recent build script changes
* Install ccache for musllinux distribtest images
* Revert timeout change to grpc_build_artifacts
* Add Python 3.10.0rc1 binary wheels
* Drop Python 3.5 artifacts
* Document the drop of 3.5
* Fix the wrong pip pointer
* Update manylinux2014 to a newer version, remove 3.5 distribtest
* Update manylinux aarch64 to see if the absl error go away
* Use the preferred alias
* Allow different wheel library to produce different tag order
* Remove unused shell var and log produced wheels
* Use copy instead of move
* Make bash happy about the wildcard
* Upgrade the debian image to use 3.5+ Python
* Polish the comments for the Dockerfiles
Xuan Wang