installing fruit

I'm endeavoring to use fortran and ruby together for my own various and
sundry purposes. Without knowing better, I would call ruby the next
generation of scripting language. Furthermore, it has close ties to
powerful visual media.

I wanted a clean installation, so I did a Sodom and Gomorrah with my
machine, which after the fact has xp running. I want to install FRUIT:

! begin excerpt of announcement upthread by Andrew Chen

FRUIT is a unit testing utility written for FORTRAN. The project
started in 2004 when I did development in FORTRAN. Westinghouse
donated this project to open source community.

Features of FRUIT include:
1. Pure FORTRAN, so all modules and subroutines can be tested. Core
modules are just 2 FORTRAN files.
2. Follows XUnit guidelines, it handles setup/teardown, test_xxx .
3. Enables you to do Test Driven Development, and Behavior Driven
Development in FORTRAN.
!end excerpt

Question 1) Where "should" I install it? Before I killed windows, I did a
test run on the installation. The one click executable at
http://www.7-zip.org/ seemed to cover all the unzipping, untarring needs
that I have. What results are maybe 15 files in 6 folders and additional
subfolders.

The result reminded me of an ActiveState perl installation, which just may
have six folders at top level as well. Apparently, these folders have
meaning for development. I found out yesterday that the "bin" was not the
bin for all the programs you write, but is the place for "binaries." Other
folders were generally understood to do things like house libraries, contain
dependencies, contain drivers and so forth.

I have the install executable for the latest version of ruby, as well as the
install for silverfrost's f95 suite, as well as fruit_2.4.4.zip on my
desktop. My guess is that ruby, upon installation, will look filewise like
perl did. Silverfrost will locate itself in My Programs. Is there a better
choice for where to install this, or does it work arbitralily well anywhere?

--

Gerry Ford

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably
not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
-- H L Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)


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