diff --git a/doc/source/development/contributing_codebase.rst b/doc/source/development/contributing_codebase.rst
index a2417616cf80a..ea5dbbb43dde5 100644
--- a/doc/source/development/contributing_codebase.rst
+++ b/doc/source/development/contributing_codebase.rst
@@ -907,8 +907,7 @@ will only run the ``GroupByMethods`` benchmark defined in ``groupby.py``.
 
 You can also run the benchmark suite using the version of ``pandas``
 already installed in your current Python environment. This can be
-useful if you do not have virtualenv or conda, or are using the
-``setup.py develop`` approach discussed above; for the in-place build
+useful if you do not have virtualenv or conda; for the in-place build
 you need to set ``PYTHONPATH``, e.g.
 ``PYTHONPATH="$PWD/.." asv [remaining arguments]``.
 You can run benchmarks using an existing Python
diff --git a/doc/source/development/contributing_environment.rst b/doc/source/development/contributing_environment.rst
index c09e8595f0241..f5d2915759ec7 100644
--- a/doc/source/development/contributing_environment.rst
+++ b/doc/source/development/contributing_environment.rst
@@ -211,7 +211,6 @@ for :ref:`building pandas with GitPod <contributing-gitpod>`.
 Step 3: build and install pandas
 --------------------------------
 
-There are currently two supported ways of building pandas, pip/meson and setuptools(setup.py).
 Historically, pandas has only supported using setuptools to build pandas. However, this method
 requires a lot of convoluted code in setup.py and also has many issues in compiling pandas in parallel
 due to limitations in setuptools.
@@ -255,28 +254,6 @@ With pip, it is possible to chain together multiple config settings. For example
 and building with debug symbols would look like
 ``-Cbuilddir="your builddir here" -Csetup-args="-Dbuildtype=debug"``.
 
-**Compiling pandas with setup.py**
-
-.. note::
-   This method of compiling pandas will be deprecated and removed very soon, as the meson backend matures.
-
-To compile pandas with setuptools, run::
-
-   python setup.py develop
-
-.. note::
-   If pandas is already installed (via meson), you have to uninstall it first::
-
-        python -m pip uninstall pandas
-
-This is because python setup.py develop will not uninstall the loader script that ``meson-python``
-uses to import the extension from the build folder, which may cause errors such as an
-``FileNotFoundError`` to be raised.
-
-.. note::
-   You will need to repeat this step each time the C extensions change, for example
-   if you modified any file in ``pandas/_libs`` or if you did a fetch and merge from ``upstream/main``.
-
 **Checking the build**
 
 At this point you should be able to import pandas from your locally built version::