[crac] RFR: 8376959: [CRaC] Turn simengine into shared library [v2]

[Radim Vansa]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 14:41:51 GMT, Timofei Pushkin <tpushkin at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> April 2026 is 27, a STS version, and 28 is STS as well (not that it would matter so much in CRaC - we haven't been updating the older branches anyway). I am OK to expire this in 28, though.
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> I meant that in OpenJDK we will use 27 for deprecation and 28 for obsoletion, but in our downstream LTS releases we will need to pick versions with the corresponding major versions, otherwise they will never reach the deprecation/obsoletion/expiration. And for that I propose to use the versions that will be released in April 2026 and April 2027.

How would you want to record the obsoletion? Fetching JVM version constant from somewhere + static_assert?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/crac/pull/289#discussion_r2773893126