[5.7] Clean up the code and some of the API of compiling plugins, and improve persistence of cached compiler outputs (#4290 & #4299) #4309
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This is the 5.7 nomination of #4290 and the follow-on Windows fix #4299. Those PRs contain the details.
Summary
Provide more information to clients of libSwiftPM even when a compiled plugin doesn't have to be recompiled because nothing has changed since the last time it was. Also make the API a bit cleaner.