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This is the current release provided as a Windows Installer package and ZIP file.

The farther out a release is on this plan, the more flexible and vague are the goals.

Incorporate code cleanups from other branches, but not any radical restructuring:
- replace use of char* strings with std::string
- name all the magic values with enums or consts
- localize variable declarations to their first use
- localize variables to for and if scope
- replace C-style casts with C++ cast operators
- replace fixed-size arrays with std::vector
- remove debug flag code
eliminate integer math code?
restore mouse support
restore sound support
get the minimal X11 code working similar to the way the Win32 code is working with a CGA color style 'text window' instead of curses
fix these issues
deprecate legacy parameters:
- askvideo
- minstack
- warn
- video
promote this project

separate UI from application logic
switch to OpenGL for all pixel and primitive rendering operations
switch UI from polling to event-driven
switch to a wxWidgets based UI with a 'CGA text window' wxWidgets component to handle the text screens

replace the major CGA text window options screens with wxWidgets dialogs
replace crazy homebrew complex types/math with C++ std::complex<>
replace homebrew bignum with boost multiple precision library with GNU GMP/mpfrcpp backend
lots of automated testing needed here to ensure that the math isn't messed up. Maybe a clang refactoring tool could do some of the transformations. Not sure.

replace homebrew formula parser with one based on Boost.Spirit
recast existing fractal types as C++ algorithms operating on std::complex<T> to enable arbitrary precision on them
recast existing fractal types as GPU shaders