Add cargo publish --view-crates / --view-docs command

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Problem

The very excellent GitHub CLI allows to open a browser directly from the command line, showing the current repository. This is just a very nice quality of life improvement that would be great for cargo too.

After publishing it would be great to be able to view the new docs.rs and crates.io page to admire your work or check things faster.

Proposed Solution

I would suggest to add two command line options to the cargo publish command:

• cargo publish --view-crates for viewing the associated page on crates.io.
• cargo publish --view-docs for viewing the associated page on docs.rs

Notes

The addition to cargo publish might not be ideal. It could suggest other meaning.

It is also an implementation effort that would take time and only be an improvement for a small number of people.

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Some challenges

• How much does cargo know about the registry and documentation for a crate to be able to generate links (e.g. alternate registries)?
• docs.rs generates documentation asynchronously and it can take a while before the docs will be available
• Speaking of, the registry is also asynchronous which will be more noticeable if opening the link immediately though solving publish multiple crates, races with dependencies #9507 could help
• What will these do with cargo publish multiple packages at once #1169

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cargo info <name> will include links for crates.io, docs.rs and at least in my terminal, they are viewable.

Is that sufficient for this?

Maybe we could also have those links in the publish message?