docs: Suggestion - Provide consistency in the description of setup.cfg

Improve safe_version documentation

Change load_module to exec_module

Remove superfluous 'v' in CHANGES.rst

This was an artifact of the fact that I did not use `tox -e finalize`
to do the latest release in order to make a patch release.

Fix issue with distutils warning

Prefer included distutils even without importing setuptools. Closes #2259.

Add tests capturing expected distutils behavior.

Bypass pytest-virtualenv due to bugs in 'run' command. Instead, use jaraco.envs.VirtualEnv and build a bespoke fixture with a run command.

Set up GHA to test on Python 3.9-beta and 3.8-dev

Fixed typo

Bugfix/tests for msvc spawn

In _msvccompiler.MSVCCompiler.spawn, use correct capitalization for PATH environment variable. Fixes failing test and fixes pypa/setuptools#2257.

In CCompiler, allow keyword arguments to be passed to spawn calls. Ref pypa/setuptools#2257 and pypa/distutils#5.

In TestSpawn.test_concurrent_safe, use CheckThread to ensure that the spawn call does not simply fail to execute. Ref pypa/setuptools#2257.

Suppress ImportError for winreg as the module is only available on some platforms. Allows unit testing of module on non-Windows platforms.

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