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DOC: provide detailed information about building the C extensions (development environment) #46205

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https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/development/contributing_environment.html#creating-a-development-environment

Documentation problem

To setup a local development environment the user has to build the C extensions.
The current description contains minimal information about how to build the C extensions.

The information has already been expanded somewhat in PR #46055 (updated docs), but it would be helpful to provide more detailed information.

Suggested fix for documentation

Extract the already existing information into a separate section.
In addition, the new section should provide the user with more detailed information on the following questions:

  • Why do these need to be build?
  • How to build?
  • When do they need to be build or rebuild?

The existing sections Creating an environment using Docker and Creating an environment without Docker should then refer to the newly created section.

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