Having this as a method of PluginMeta felt most natural, but unfortunately
that means that discovery must depend on plugin and plugin in turn
depends on core Terraform, thus making the discovery package hard to use
without creating dependency cycles.
To resolve this, we invert the dependency and make the plugin package be
responsible for instantiating clients given a meta, using a top-level
function.
This replaces this plugin system with the extracted hashicorp/go-plugin
library.
This doesn't introduce any new features such as binary flattening but
opens us up to that a lot more easily and removes a lot of code from TF
in favor of the upstream lib.
This will introduce a protocol change that will cause all existing
plugins to have to be recompiled to work properly. There is no actual
API changes so they just have to recompile, but it is technically
backwards incompatible.
Now that we support log line filtering (as of 0090c063) it's good to be
a bit more fussy about what log levels are assigned to different things.
Here we make a few things that are implementation details log as DEBUG,
and prevent spurious errors from EvalValidateCount where it was returning
an empty EvalValidateError rather than nil when everything was okay.
Martin Atkins