Incompatibility with newer version of setuptools

[pakmonsterr]

was getting the error TypeError: canonicalize_version() got an unexpected keyword argument 'strip_trailing_zero' when trying to run python3 setup.py dist

issue turned out to be with the newest version of setup tools, so I fixed it by downgrading pip install setuptools==68

[mraineri]

Seems like a widespread issue with mixing of setuptools and other packaging tools... I found this issue here: pypa/setuptools#4483

I'm not sure if this is really specific to this project though, but I would like to better understand how to resolve these tooling dependencies to ensure we can build reliably.