[GHC] #15826: Allow registering (Source)Plugins through the GHC API

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#15826: Allow registering (Source)Plugins through the GHC API
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        Reporter:  DanielG           |                Owner:  DanielG
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  GHC API           |              Version:  8.7
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 Related Tickets:                    |  Differential Rev(s):  D5278
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Comment (by DanielG):

 I guess "plugin" is the wrong term here, so that might be causing some
 confusion. The whole point of this endeavor is to be able to use plugins
 already compiled into the programm calling the GHC API, without loading
 anything dynamically, so recompilation checking simply isn't needed here.

 The idea is that since GHC now has plugin support lots of people will
 build interresintg plugins and I'd like to be able to use these in tooling
 projects without mucking about with having to `cabal install` them at
 runtime. So instead I figure since plugins are just regular
 packages/modules why not just link against them at build time?

 If I just wanted to just load some (dynamically) loaded plugins through
 the GHC API you are right, what I'm doing wouldn't make much sense. That
 just not the use-case though.

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