I'm worndering what was the intial purpose of the ivy variables? Was it to decouple the core from ant properties? To allow overwrite?
I'm wondering if it still has a utility, and if the ant properties couldn't simply be used instead? I might be wrong, but I have the feeling that they have been created first without any link to ant properties and then you have added an import of the ant properties during the configure. Without considering the patch I send to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-366 , I have the impression that the distinction between the ivy variables and the ant properties is not so clear. -- Gilles SCOKART
