Rfcs: Expose method to open link in a web browser

[clarfonthey]

cargo doc has this code written up already in a way that's cross-platform: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/master/src/cargo/ops/cargo_doc.rs

It'd be nice if a cleaner API for this were provided in libstd so that any rust program could open a link to a web page from their app. This is rather common in a lot of situations and considering how cargo already needs this code, it wouldn't be much of an extra maintenance burden.

[SimonSapin]

This would be a fine library for crates.io, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it should be in the standard library. Remember that versioning of the standard library is tied to that of the language: once something is in there, you can’t make breaking changes to it until Rust 2.0 (which is something I hope won’t happen for many years).

[TheZalli]

I think you are looking for the crate open

[clarfonthey]

Closing this because there's a crate for this.