@isucan, given that moveit is still in development, I'd prefer to avoid bogging it down with compatibility already. As usual, I think the most important thing is to announce the change to the mailing list. I presume  in his comment below, @davetcoleman is mainly concerned about another "change in how place locations are interpreted", which really wasn't announced to the mailing list (or anywhere much for that matter), which I know caused quite a bit of frustration for both of us when demos suddenly started failing in non-obvious ways.