Replace Windows recommendation for curses (UniCurses) with windows-curses

[heubergen]

Documentation

https://docs.python.org/3/howto/curses.html says:

The Windows version of Python doesn’t include the curses module. A ported version called UniCurses is available.

but that project is no longer maintained (since 2014). User suggest to use windows-curses instead, which while also having no activity since November 2022 is at least newer than the other one. I couldn't find a better/more active project.

Linked PRs

• gh-110904: Recommend windows-curses in the curses HOWTO #152491
• [3.15] gh-110904: Recommend windows-curses in the curses HOWTO (GH-152491) #152506
• [3.14] gh-110904: Recommend windows-curses in the curses HOWTO (GH-152491) #152507
• [3.13] gh-110904: Recommend windows-curses in the curses HOWTO (GH-152491) #152508

[GiorgosXou]

but that project is no longer maintained (since 2014).

@heubergen I started maintaining Uni-Curses at 2021 and still keeping it up-to-date. Another maintainer tried to contant the owner (Agetian) who abandoned it but without any luck, therefore the old package stayed there and a new one was created.

[GiorgosXou]

(it's heavilly tested too; with apps like this one or that one)

[serhiy-storchaka]

Fixed by #152491. The curses HOWTO now recommends windows-curses instead of the unmaintained UniCurses. Thanks @heubergen!

Regarding the maintained Uni-Curses fork — thanks @GiorgosXou; we went with windows-curses because it's a thin wrapper exposing the standard-library curses API unchanged (so the existing HOWTO applies as-is). It is the more natural drop-in to recommend from these docs.