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Add suitable default open statement for FreeBSD

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
fsharp
Domain
operating-systems

Research direction

Start in src/Plotly.NET/InternalUtils.fs at lines 93-105 and inspect the OS-specific logic used by Chart.show. Research the appropriate FreeBSD open command, then add the FreeBSD case and verify that Chart.show can display charts on that OS; testing may require FreeBSD access.

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Description

Area: Meta Area: MissingAbstraction help wanted Type: Enhancement

Chart.show uses an OS-specific way of opening files:

https://github.com/plotly/Plotly.NET/blob/2f94e879d23b0bdd259ec76cff99ae8946b375b2/src/Plotly.NET/InternalUtils.fs#L93-L105

Since we do not have a match case for FreeBSD, you currently cannot display charts via Chart.show on that OS.

Since i am not familiar with that OS, I would need input from someone that actually uses it on how to proceed here.

My first google attempt comes up with this, but i have no way of testing it.

See also #384

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