Comment Re:Where will decent software come from? (Score 1) 111
I have spent the last 4 nights, 3-4 hours each night, trying to build and install all the dependancies for FreeCAD v0.14 on a CentOS 6.5 box.
I had no problems at all installing on Ubuntu. At the school we installed onto several old Macbooks, and had no problems there either.
The build documentation is crap
Well, duh. It is open source, so of course the documentation will be crap.
And python? Why would a end-user want to learn Python just to create an object?
You don't have to use Python. It is just an option if you want to write macros or script repetitive tasks. All serious CAD programs have some sort of scripting, and using Python is much better than using some quirky, buggy, customized hack like AutoLISP.