ic-certified-assets is basically the asset canister that ships with dfx. The way it is structured does IMO not make it suited for any form of reusability. I plan to migrate it to ic-asset-certification as much as possible once that’s available. With that, I don’t think there would be much value to ic-certified-assets anymore, especially with how it is structured today (I think it doesn’t really allow reuse of anything useful).
While we have not discussed this in the team I honestly don’t really see a way forward to make ic-certified-assets a useful crate. What I could see is a crate that simplifies the use of the batch upload interface since one can use dfx to sync via that interface.
@Samer what do you think? Do you see a hole that ic-certified-assets could fill? Or what do you get as a consumer of it today?