chore: updated windows-2019 to windows-latest and pip install packaging to see if it fixes the CI failures

Author: bizob2828

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
             build-group: linux
           - os: macos-latest
             build-group: darwin
-          - os: windows-2019
+          - os: windows-latest
             build-group: win32
     name: Build ${{ matrix.build-group }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ jobs:
       # new versions of python don't include distutils. setuptools provides it.
       - name: Install setuptools
         run: pip install setuptools
+     # See https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/2869
+      - name: Install packaging
+        run: pip install packaging
       - name: Update npm
         run: npm install -g npm@8
       - name: Install

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         node: [12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22]
-        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-2019]
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
     name: Node v${{ matrix.node }} (${{ matrix.os }})
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     timeout-minutes: 10
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ jobs:
         run: python --version
       - name: Install setuptools
         run: pip install setuptools
+      # See: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/2869#issuecomment-1769572922
+      - name: Install packaging
+        run: pip install packaging
       - name: Update npm
         run: npm install -g npm@8
       - name: Install dependencies