doc building taking a very long time

[cpcloud]

I remember these building in less than 5 minutes in the past.

[jreback]

are u using sphinx 1.1.3? (1.2 doesn't seem to work for me)

[cpcloud]

I'm using sphinx 1.2.1 let me try reverting to an older versio

[cpcloud]

btw phillipcloud.com is now temporarily host pandas docs if you want to take a look :)

[cpcloud]

still taking a long time with sphinx 1.1.3

[jreback]

you can just build a single section...-single much faster

[cpcloud]

ok thx

[jreback]

the api is what takes a long time

[jreback]

fyi...i think their is a way to limit the exception backtraces (or can use a code-block...but better to have it except)

[cpcloud]

right ... yeah that thing is huge bc of visitor

[cpcloud]

hm doesn't look like it's anywhere in our ipython directive ..

[jreback]

hmm...ok...maybe just do a code-block then?

[jreback]

maybe make an issue about limiting backtraces....got to be a way

[cpcloud]

ipython/ipython#5162

[jreback]

gr8

[cpcloud]

@jreback Should we keep this open?

[jreback]

did it take a long time? excessive?

@jorisvandenbossche

[cpcloud]

make doc is slow ... but if that's how it is because of API docs I guess I can live with that and just use --single since that's fast.

[jorisvandenbossche]

yep. The doc building has always been slow, we now have just a lot more docs than some months ago (mainly more api docs).
And you can indeed build partial docs after #6179.

I would also advise not to use make doc, maar python doc/make.py html if you don't want to do a full rebuild every time. This will be much quicker if you just want to check your changes.