I have found that I am unable to use Ivy to add the dependency org.apache.flume/flume-ng-sdk, version 1.4.0. It gets tripped up trying to pull org.apache.thrift/libthrift with a literal version of "${thrift.version}". I'm writing to this list first because I have tried to use it with some other systems that do maven-ish dependency management (mvn itself and leiningen) and they had no problem with it. Ivy is unable to process the dependency even on the command line outside of any project.
output of "java -jar ivy-2.3.0.jar -debug -dependency org.apache.flume flume-ng-sdk 1.4.0": https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7797344 Please let me know if there's any other information I can provide. Thanks, /brian