Fix missing distutils module error during build

[Wingless-Archangel]

While trying to spawn the devcontainer in VSCode and Codespace, I encountered an error during the build process related to the missing distutils package for some reason.

After investigating further,~~I discovered that the build tool failed to read the configuration from the .devcontainer/environment.yml file.~~ (after have another look this file is for conda to use but the build doesn't use conda at all) it was using a base Python version higher than 3.10, which is deprecated and no longer includes the distutils package as outlined in PEP-632 . Also, some packages already included in the container image.

This pull request addresses this issue by removing some dependencies instead and add rust compiler to satisfy tiktoken requirement.

Please have a look.

EDIT: change the approach since I couldn't reproduce the build anymore.

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[Wingless-Archangel]

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[Wingless-Archangel]

Hi @koreyspace,

Is there something wrong with my pull request?

[koreyspace]

Apologies on the delay @Wingless-Archangel , thanks for the contribution. merged!