SG-36372 Switch distutil.version to packaging.version

[carlos-villavicencio-adsk]

This component runs on FPTR desktop. In case of using the default desktop Python binary so it's safe to assume we have the packaging module. Otherwise it can autodetect using distutils, packaging or fall back to a simple string comparison. This is only for sorting the versions on the launcher.

We cannot use any of the available utils functions of tk-core, and we don't want to create a new coupling at this point.

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This pull request modernizes version handling in the BaseLauncher class by replacing the deprecated distutils.version.LooseVersion with packaging.version.parse. The change removes conditional imports based on Python version and simplifies the version sorting implementation.

• Replaces deprecated distutils.version.LooseVersion with packaging.version.parse
• Consolidates imports and removes Python version-specific conditional logic
• Restructures utility imports for better organization

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (1)

python/tk_multi_launchapp/base_launcher.py:508

• [nitpick] The variable name 'v' is ambiguous in the list comprehension. Consider using a more descriptive name like 'version_str' to distinguish it from the 'version' module.

            sort_versions = [version.parse(v) for v in versions]