Material for MkDocs: documentation framework with an end-of-life notice, README overview
The README presents Material for MkDocs as a Markdown documentation theme and framework, now heading to end of life.
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Source: https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material
What it supplies: The README presents Material for MkDocs as a Markdown documentation theme and framework, now heading to end of life.
Useful for: - Build a documentation site from Markdown with the material theme.
- Evaluate Zensical as the maintained successor using the same mkdocs.yml.
First action: - Run pip install mkdocs-material on Python 3.11 or newer.
- Set the theme name to material in mkdocs.yml.
Prerequisites and limits: Python 3.11 or newer. The project reaches end of life on May 5, 2027.
- End of life on May 5, 2027, with only critical fixes until then.
- New projects should consider the successor named in the README.
Source-documented: MIT License.
Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on opening, end-of-life warning, quick start and licence heading README text only; other sections were not read. Nothing was installed or run.
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