Distribute as a wheel
At PyCon sounded like wheels (*.whl) are the new hotness when it comes to distributing python modules...
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wheel
Don't think we want to jump on this right away for a few reasons...
- Still pretty new. They haven't even reached their 1.x release yet.
- Really all we care about is built-in pip support. Not clear all versions support wheels.
- Requires setuptools. It's kinda nice just needing the builtins.
- We don't need any of the capabilities wheel provides. Stem is a simple module without any native components.
That said, if this becomes the standard then once it's universally supported we should obviously swap.