Dependencies in builder

[timwienk]

In the old website, components (or their checkboxes) basically had three states:

• not selected
• automatically selected (as dependency)
• selected

When selecting component A that requires component B, component A would be selected and component B would show as automatically selected. Additionally, this was reflected in the generated build hash (component A would be in the hash, component B wouldn't be).

One of the benefits is that, if component A changes to require more or less other components, the hash would stay the same and the result would still be a package with working selected components.

Another benefit is that, if you deselect component A, all dependencies (that are not manually selected or needed by other components) would be automatically deselected.

Example, from packager-web (which is what the builder from the old website was based on):

Only "Class" is manually selected.

[timwienk]

A package/component in the "automatic" state is still stored in the hash.

When selecting component A that requires component B, component A would be selected and component B would show as automatically selected. Additionally, this was reflected in the generated build hash (component A would be in the hash, component B wouldn't be).