Tracking Issue for merging cargo-information/cargo info to Cargo

[Rustin170506]

Summary

Rust Internals: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/feedback-on-cargo-info-to-prepare-it-for-merging/20369
Original issue: #948
Implementation: TBD
Documentation: TBD

We developed 'cargo-information' as a solution for #948

Features:

• Works with all registries that are compatible with Cargo
• Fetches and displays basic package information (name, version, owners, etc.)
• Shows package dependencies and their versions
• Provides information about package features

And in the last six months, we have released 8 versions and had 3,428 downloads. At the same time, we have covered almost all the features it needs. So I think it is a good time to merge it back into Cargo and prove it to all Cargo users.

Unresolved Issues

• We want to report some crates.io metrics in this command as well, we will do that after we merge it back into Cargo See: Report crates.io metrics? Rustin170506/cargo-information#20
• After the public dependency feature is stable, we should consider what dependencies we want to show in this command. See: Public dependency support Rustin170506/cargo-information#138

Future Extensions

No response

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[epage]

Curious, what is the role of this tracking issue. I'm assuming we can't have this feature be unstable and instead must insta-stable it like cargo add and cargo remove. At which point, we are just tracking the command being merged which the original issue can handle. Likely, the tasks listed are not blockers. This is a UX heavy command and we have a lot of flexibility of adding / removing functionality.

[weihanglo]

As a hub connecting to other issues? That said, we can create a label Command-info for this purpose.