just wrote this as a PM, maybe this is a better summary;
Currently I'm just investigating which library would be the best to start development. Scrypt-enabled libraries allow fast start, but they won't guarantee security updates. If such a huge effort will be put into this, I want to be sure that it will be secure and closely following bitcoinj updates even 1-2 years later.
I haven't yet committed to the issue, just intentions and checking feasibility. If I do start the project, I would probably create a fork on github, and have all my changes committed there, and will announce it after it reaches some point (such as ability to sync with first 20 days of mintcoin)
I agree with what your saying since mint is a scrypt based coin we should fork the wallet off another scrypt based coin. That will maintain mainstream updates After reading what you say does make alot of sense to me let me know what repo your thinking of going off. If you need my help in anyway. lemme know i sent you a pm with my email in it.