reintroduced the names in Distutils for APIs that were relocated
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 18d0d2e..8650d45 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
 
 _sysconfig = __import__('sysconfig')
 
+# kept for backward compatibility
+# since this API was relocated
+get_platform = _sysconfig.get_platform
+
 def convert_path(pathname):
     """Return 'pathname' as a name that will work on the native filesystem.