Getting rid of distutils.

src/downloader/ini_parser.py

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2021-2022 José Manuel Barroso Galindo <[email protected]>
+from src.downloader.other import strtobool
+
 
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -16,9 +18,6 @@
 # You can download the latest version of this tool from:
 # https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Downloader_MiSTer
 
-import distutils
-import distutils.util
-
 
 class IniParser:
     def __init__(self, ini_args):
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ def get_string(self, key, default):
         return self._ini_args.get(key, default).strip('"\' ')
 
     def get_bool(self, key, default):
-        return bool(distutils.util.strtobool(self.get_string(key, 'true' if default else 'false')))
+        return bool(strtobool(self.get_string(key, 'true' if default else 'false')))
 
     def get_int(self, key, default):
         result = self.get_string(key, None)

src/downloader/other.py

@@ -56,6 +56,16 @@ class UnreachableException(Exception):
     pass
 
 
+def strtobool(val: str):
+    val = val.lower()
+    if val in ('y', 'yes', 't', 'true', 'on', '1'):
+        return 1
+    elif val in ('n', 'no', 'f', 'false', 'off', '0'):
+        return 0
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("invalid truth value %r" % (val,))
+
+
 def format_files_message(file_list):
     any_mra_files = [file for file in file_list if file[-4:].lower() == '.mra']