Eric,
It works for me the way you described it. Have you tried it? 
Aleksey 

> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:15:46 -0700
> From: eric.scheie@teradata.com
> To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Referencing dynamic properties in ivy.xml.
> 
> 
> I have a bunch of ivy.xml files that reference a set of internally developed
> modules that all have the same version.    I was wondering if there is way
> to to reference properties inside of ivy.xml files that can then be set via
> ant or somewhere else.   E.g. -  I set a property
> "the.release.version.to.use" in ant and that is what is used by ivy during
> the resolve.
> 
> <ivy-module version="1.0">
> 	<info organisation="myorg" module="mymodule" />
> 	<configurations>
> 		<conf name="runtime" description="the modules needed at runtime"/>
>     	        <conf name="build" description="the modules needed at build
> time"/>
>     	        <conf name="dist" description="the dcs distribution"/>
> 	</configurations>
> 	<publications>
>   		<artifact name="mymodule" type="tar.gz" ext="tar.gz" conf="dist" />
>                 <artifact name="mymodule" type="jar" ext="jar"
> conf="runtime" />
>   	</publications>
> 	<dependencies>
> 		<dependency org="myorg" name="module1" rev="${the.release.version.to.use}"
> conf="runtime->runtime"/>
>                 <dependency org="myorg" name="module2"
> rev="${the.release.version.to.use}" conf="runtime->runtime"/>
>                 <dependency org="myorg" name="module3"
> rev="${the.release.version.to.use}" conf="runtime->runtime"/>
> 	</dependencies>
> </ivy-module>
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