Allow to build without distutils

[jschueller]

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[PeterMeisrimelModelon]

Is this ready to be reviewed? I held off since it was still marked as "Draft". (I suppose same for modelon-community/PyFMI#236)

[jschueller]

yes, this is ready: the skbuild/cmake path is not good enough because it does not allow to fully cross-compile the windows fortran modules with the 2 different compiler/linkers needed (msvc+msys/gfortran) like its currently done in conda-forge
instead I propose to use setuptools instead of distutils and ignore the fortran solvers for now with python>=3.12
it turns out we dont require them for what we do with pyfmi, but I suggest they get migrated to C in the long term (most are f77 and can be converted using f2c)

[modelonrobinandersson]

Looks good here too, just a minor comment, and add a changelog entry, thanks again!

[jschueller]

done

[jschueller]

hello @PeterMeisrimelModelon @modelonrobinandersson could we tag a new version with this ?

[modelonrobinandersson]

hello @PeterMeisrimelModelon @modelonrobinandersson could we tag a new version with this ?

hi @jschueller I will get back tomorrow, I am just going to make a minor test on my end with these changes and then I hope to merge it.