GATE 8.1: there are situations where a gapp/xgapp file gets stored by GATE and it contains exactly the same plugin path twice.
The entries are exactly the same, the paths are character-by-character identical.
When loading such a file, there is only one "plugin loaded" message for such a plugin in the message pane.
Saving that application again then does remove the duplicate entries. Need to find the situation that causes duplicate entries to get saved.
Fixed as of r18791
Actually the change in r18791 is more of a work-around, there is probably a better way to prevent the plugins to get loaded several times in the plugin manager.
So leaving this open for now.
with the whole plugin mechanism having changed this is probably irrelevant and I believe even with directory plugins the changes means this is no longer an issue