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ninix-aya(Function extended version of ninix)
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What is this?
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Ninix-aya ,once known as 'AYA compatible modules and so forth for
ninix', is a functionally extended fork of desktop accessory
application 'ninix' that runs on Unix OSes.
It also includes improvements and bug fixes not included in the
original ninix.
Now it runs not only on Unix OSes but also on Windows.
After version 4.500.x (i.e. 5.x series) it switched to use Ruby.

What are necessary to ruy ninix-aya?
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Following softwares are necessary to run ninix-aya.
It may not work properly if you use older version than confirmed one.

- Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org/)
  Language used to develope and run this software.
  We have confirmed the operation with version 2.5.1 and 2.3.3.
  * Please install Ruby Installer and Devkit on Windows.

- NArray(http://masa16.github.io/narray/)
  Ruby class library that makes it easy and fast to compute
  large-scale multidimensional numerical arrays.
  We have confirmed the operation with version 0.6.1.2 and 0.6.1.1.

- Ruby/GTK3 (http://ruby-gnome2.osdn.jp/)
  Set of Ruby language bindings for the GNOME development environment.
  We have confirmed the operation with version 3.2.7 and 3.1.0.

- GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/)
  Multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
  We have confirmed the operation with version 3.22.30 and 3.22.11.
  Version 3.22 or later is mandatory.

- Ruby/GStreamer (http://ruby-gnome2.osdn.jp/)
  This software is not mandatory for ninix-aya to run.
  Used to play back audio files.
  We have confirmed the operation with version 3.2.7 and 3.1.0.

- GStreamer (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/)
  This software is not mandatory for ninix-aya to run.
  Used to play back audio files.
  We have confirmed the operation with version 1.14.1 and 1.10.4.

- Rubyzip(https://github.com/rubyzip/rubyzip)
  Ruby library for reading and writing zip files.
  We have confirmed the operation with version 1.2.1 and 1.2.0.

- Ruby gettext(http://ruby-gettext.github.io/)
  Ruby library and tools for localization.
  We have confirmed the operation with version 3.2.9 and 3.2.2.

- CharlockHolmes (http://github.com/brianmario/charlock_holmes)
  This software is not mandatory for ninix-aya to run.
  Necessary if you would like to run 'ghost' which uses 'MISAKA'
  library and whose encoding is not Shift-JIS.
  We have confirmed the operation with version 0.7.5 and 0.7.3.

Installation
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For Linux distributions such as Debian, we recommend to use offical
package.

In following sentences we explain how to install from the source
archive. And we assume Unix OS.

Download source archive of latest version and extract it.

There are items in Makefile that specifies following settings.

* Global installation destination directory (prefix)
* Installation destination directory of files for localization
  (localedir)
* Path for SHIORI .so files such as KAWARI8 and YAYA (shiori_so_dir)
* And so on

Modify them according to your environment.

Then installation will be completed if you execute 'make install' as
following.

# make install

Script to execute ninix-aya is installed. So execute it.

$ ninix

On Windows environment extract source archive and execute
lib/ninix_main.rb with Ruby interpreter.

* Steps to install required library by using 'gem'.
  (You need to install DevKit in advance)
  gem install narray
  gem install gtk3
  gem install gstreamer
  gem install gettext
  gem install rubyzip

License
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Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 by Tamito KAJIYAMA <kajiyama3@geocities.co.jp>
Copyright (C) 2002-2007 by MATSUMURA Namihiko <nie@counterghost.net>
Copyright (C) 2002-2019 by Shyouzou Sugitani <shy@users.osdn.me>
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 by ABE Hideaki <abe-xx@eos.dricas.com>
Copyright (C) 2003-2005 by Shun-ichi TAHARA <jado@flowernet.gr.jp>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2) as
published by the Free Software Foundation.  It is distributed in the
hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Contact Information.
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This software is developed and distruted by Shyouzou Sugitani and
MATSUMURA Namihiko (a.k.a. Sakura No Nie).
Mail addresses are

Shyouzou Sugitani <shy@users.osdn.me>
MATSUMURA Namihiko <nie@counterghost.net>

Or access forums of http://osdn.jp/projects/ninix-aya/
(There are part of old developement informations at
http://nie.counterghost.net/)

Links
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Home page of Are Igai No Nanika with 'Nin-i' (Something other than
that with 'ANY') - Ninix distribution site
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino/7565/

Home page of ninix-aya developement projcet
http://ninix-aya.osdn.jp/

Ninix-aya distribution site
http://osdn.jp/projects/ninix-aya/

Concluded.
