replacing distutils.StrictVersion dependency for Python 3.12

[velaia]

…ersion after distutils deprecation (in 3.10) and removal in Python 3.12 (see https://docs.python.org/3.10/whatsnew/3.10.html#distutils-deprecated)

Description

gradio had an error on startup on Python 3.12.1:

(.venv) daniel@Daniels-MacBook-Pro gradio_dev % python main.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/daniel/git/gradio_dev/main.py", line 1, in <module>
    import gradio as gr
  File "/Users/daniel/git/gradio_dev/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    import gradio._simple_templates
  File "/Users/daniel/git/gradio_dev/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/_simple_templates/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .simpledropdown import SimpleDropdown
  File "/Users/daniel/git/gradio_dev/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/_simple_templates/simpledropdown.py", line 6, in <module>
    from gradio.components.base import FormComponent
  File "/Users/daniel/git/gradio_dev/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/components/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from gradio.components.annotated_image import AnnotatedImage
  File "/Users/daniel/git/gradio_dev/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/components/annotated_image.py", line 12, in <module>
    from gradio.components.base import Component
  File "/Users/daniel/git/gradio_dev/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/components/base.py", line 21, in <module>
    from gradio.blocks import Block, BlockContext
  File "/Users/daniel/git/gradio_dev/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/blocks.py", line 29, in <module>
    from gradio import (
  File "/Users/daniel/git/gradio_dev/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/analytics.py", line 10, in <module>
    from distutils.version import StrictVersion
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

(.venv) daniel@Daniels-MacBook-Pro gradio_dev % python --version
Python 3.12.1

Closes: #6937

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Tests

I couldn't run the full test suite locally due to complications with bash scripts/build_frontend.sh (on macOS). I tested by adjusting the file and running the demo app with Python 3.12.1

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Thanks so much @velaia! LGTM