Anar here...
As I promised, I am going to make several posts dedicated to new features of upcoming PoD v2.4.
Today's new feature or better to say possibility is "PoD UI/Server on Mac OS X".
Currently PoD UI and PoD Server are always on the same machine and can't be separated. A more preferable use case would be having UI on the laptop and a possibility to command to have PoD server somewhere else, maybe on a remote cluster, possibly close to PoD workers. This use case gives the maximum performance and flexibility for users.
We have a plan and we are working on disentangling of PoD UI and Server. So that user will be able to run PoD UI and PoD Server on different machines.
As a small step towards accomplishing the goal of disentangling, I have just finished porting PoD UI/Server to Mac OS X. So far only Command Line Interface and only the SSH plug-in are working and have been tested. But since main core modules have been just ported to support Mac, the other plug-ins will be easily ported as well.
You can already try running PoD on Mac using any build equal or higher than PoD-2.3.83. Check PoD nightly builds up: http://pod.gsi.de/releases/pod/nightly/
