gProximity incompatible with default views

I have some gProximity views that I exported so that they may be stored in code as per the following tutorial:
http://shellmultimedia.com/articles/managing-your-views-code

This seems to work well with every other kind of view, but breaks with gProximity. I get the following error when trying to access the view:

This View's fields have been changed or just created. Please go here and update/add fields for this gProximity view.

It seems that gproximity relies heavily on the contents of {view_view} table which does not contain info on default views stored in code, and cached in {cache_views} table.

The only work-around I can think of involves the following:

• Change the gpid to be the name of the view instead of the vid, because default views don't have a vid, only a name. This impacts just about everything else, it would seem (admin menu paths, etc).
• Pull in views configuration data from the cache_views table instead of view_view table. There are 4 direct queries to the {view_view} table in the module.

This refactoring sounds quite complex, which is fine, but I would want refactor in consultation with the module maintainer(s). Thoughts?