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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"It is getting increasingly difficult to build the matplotlib documentation","articleBody":"I've had to build the matplotlib documentation several times in the past couple of months, and everytime, it is getting increasingly difficult to build the documentation.\nThe number of packages required has drastically increased in the past year or so, including packages where the installation instruction is pretty much missing (http://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/installing.html)\nHaving had to set up a new computer recently, I am running in many problems that I believe many core devs are not aware.\n\nThis unfortunately increases the level required for new contributors to do documentation changes. I would consider removing a bunch of dependencies…\n\nNote that the doc/README.txt only mentions that sphinx is required, and the documentation then crashes after 5 minutes of build.\nHere is an uncomplete list of packages required to build the documentation: numpydoc, basemap, colorspacious, mock, ipython (!!!!)\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/NelleV","@type":"Person","name":"NelleV"},"datePublished":"2016-09-05T16:19:30.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":14},"url":"https://github.com/7040/matplotlib/issues/7040"}