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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Use Makefile for sphinx build","articleBody":"#5743 reminded me:\n\nWe still use an ancient `make.py` that is based on what early versions of `sphinx-quickstart` used to generate.  We should probably modernize this to use a Makefile like current versions of sphinx create.\n\nThis is sort of low-priority, because the only _real_ advantage would be consistency with other Python projects.  The Makefile won't magically make things faster or anything.  Also, the work is non-trivial since our `make.py` includes customizations and other things that get run that will need to be ported to the \"current way to do things\" (probably Sphinx extensions).\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/mdboom","@type":"Person","name":"mdboom"},"datePublished":"2016-01-05T13:46:17.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/5798/matplotlib/issues/5798"}