Is there a StrictVersion after we drop distutils?

[cclauss]

We currently use from distutils.version import StrictVersion but we want to drop distutils in preparation for Python 3.12. What is the recommended substitute for StrictVersion? https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/distutils/version.py#L93

https://github.com/pypa/packaging/blob/main/packaging/version.py

[Wouterkoorn]

Maybe worth raising an issue over at https://github.com/pypa/packaging/issues

[jiridanek]

• Is there a StrictVersion after we drop distutils? packaging#520
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11887762/how-do-i-compare-version-numbers-in-python

I went with

from pkg_resources import parse_version

[l0b0]

It looks like the current recommendation is packaging.version.parse.