Comment 2 for bug 1176147

My use case may actually be very common: I develop an open source project on github that uses travis-ci. This means rebuilding the testing environment with each build, or else doing hacky things. Any open source python project that depends on lxml could/should be doing something similar. By uploading a wheel you might save 2-10 minutes from each build, of which we certainly have dozens per day, so the overall savings for just typing "python setup.py bdist_wheel upload" could be huge.

Continuing to use a source distribution is *not* an option. The question is simply whether we can stick with the standard pypi or have to roll something ourselves that will, unfortunately, not benefit the rest of the community.