From 3a8f4aae514f0a55a9f8272af98b6b24fb06715a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Johannes=20J=C3=B6rg=20Schmidt?= Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:26:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add notes on implementation --- README.md | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5243d8a..14e01c7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,9 +2,18 @@ couchmagick =========== Run ImageMagicks `convert` on CouchDB documents. +couchmagick runs as an [os_daemon](http://docs.couchdb.org/en/1.5.x/config/externals.html#os_daemons), +which means that CouchDB manages the process and you can configure it using CouchDBs configuration mechanism, which is both a huge win. + +The versions and commandline arguments are defined in design documents under a `couchmagick` section. + +couchmagicks Stream based implementation provides low memory footprint. + Installation ------------ -Make sure you have ImageMagick installed, eg on Debian: +The installation of couchmagick is dead simple. + +Make sure you have `ImageMagick` installed, eg on Debian: ```bash apt-get install imagemagick ```