diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a83083dd8..b059694e7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ __pycache__/
 env/
 build/
 develop-eggs/
-dist/
+#dist/
 downloads/
 eggs/
 .eggs/
diff --git a/dist/tslearn-0.0.0-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl b/dist/tslearn-0.0.0-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fd993d64c
Binary files /dev/null and b/dist/tslearn-0.0.0-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl differ
diff --git a/tslearn/compile.py b/tslearn/compile.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9640a5576
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tslearn/compile.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+import os
+import fnmatch
+import sysconfig
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+from setuptools.command.build_py import build_py as _build_py
+from Cython.Build import cythonize
+
+EXCLUDE_FILES = [
+    'tslearn/main.py'
+]
+
+
+def get_ext_paths(root_dir, exclude_files):
+    """get filepaths for compilation"""
+    paths = []
+
+    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(root_dir):
+        for filename in files:
+            if os.path.splitext(filename)[1] != '.py':
+                continue
+
+            file_path = os.path.join(root, filename)
+            if file_path in exclude_files:
+                continue
+
+            paths.append(file_path)
+    return paths
+
+
+class build_py(_build_py):
+
+    def find_package_modules(self, package, package_dir):
+        ext_suffix = sysconfig.get_config_var('EXT_SUFFIX')
+        modules = super().find_package_modules(package, package_dir)
+        filtered_modules = []
+        for (pkg, mod, filepath) in modules:
+            if os.path.exists(filepath.replace('.py', ext_suffix)):
+                continue
+            filtered_modules.append((pkg, mod, filepath, ))
+        return filtered_modules
+
+
+setup(
+    name='tslearn',
+    version='0.0.0',
+    packages=find_packages(),
+    ext_modules=cythonize(
+        get_ext_paths('tslearn', EXCLUDE_FILES),
+        compiler_directives={'language_level': 3}
+    ),
+    cmdclass={
+        'build_py':build_py
+    }
+)
+
+# to compile working directory to wheel
+#$ python setup.py bdist_wheel
+#$ unzip tslearn-0.0.0-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl
diff --git a/tslearn/preprocessing/__init__.py b/tslearn/preprocessing/__init__.py
index 8bf58a867..d7cfcfd63 100644
--- a/tslearn/preprocessing/__init__.py
+++ b/tslearn/preprocessing/__init__.py
@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
 """
-The :mod:`tslearn.preprocessing` module gathers time series scalers and 
+The :mod:`tslearn.preprocessing` module gathers time series scalers and
 resamplers.
 """
 
 from .preprocessing import (
     TimeSeriesScalerMeanVariance,
     TimeSeriesScalerMinMax,
-    TimeSeriesResampler
+    TimeSeriesResampler,
+    TimeSeriesScaleMeanMaxVariance
 )
 
 __all__ = [
     "TimeSeriesResampler",
     "TimeSeriesScalerMinMax",
-    "TimeSeriesScalerMeanVariance"
+    "TimeSeriesScalerMeanVariance",
+    "TimeSeriesScaleMeanMaxVariance"
 ]
diff --git a/tslearn/preprocessing/preprocessing.py b/tslearn/preprocessing/preprocessing.py
index b7b96cfa2..90bbb1634 100644
--- a/tslearn/preprocessing/preprocessing.py
+++ b/tslearn/preprocessing/preprocessing.py
@@ -296,3 +296,57 @@ def transform(self, X, y=None, **kwargs):
 
     def _more_tags(self):
         return {'allow_nan': True}
+
+
+class TimeSeriesScaleMeanMaxVariance(TimeSeriesScalerMeanVariance):
+    """Scaler for time series. Scales time series so that their mean (resp.
+    standard deviation) in the signal with the max amplitue  is
+    mu (resp. std). The scaling relationships between each signal are preserved
+    This is supplement to the TimeSeriesScalerMeanVariance method
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    mu : float (default: 0.)
+        Mean of the output time series.
+    std : float (default: 1.)
+        Standard deviation of the output time series.
+
+    Notes
+    -----
+        This method requires a dataset of equal-sized time series.
+
+        NaNs within a time series are ignored when calculating mu and std.
+    """
+
+    def transform(self, X, y=None, **kwargs):
+        """Fit to data, then transform it.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        X : array-like of shape (n_ts, sz, d)
+            Time series dataset to be rescaled
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        numpy.ndarray
+            Rescaled time series dataset
+        """
+        check_is_fitted(self, '_X_fit_dims')
+        X = check_array(X, allow_nd=True, force_all_finite=False)
+        X_ = to_time_series_dataset(X)
+        X_ = check_dims(X_, X_fit_dims=self._X_fit_dims, extend=False)
+        mean_t = numpy.nanmean(X_, axis=1, keepdims=True)
+        std_t = numpy.nanstd(X_, axis=1, keepdims=True)
+        # retain the scaling relation cross the signals,
+        # the max std_t is set to self.std
+        max_std = max(std_t)
+        if max_std ==0.: max_std = 1
+        X_ = (X_ - mean_t) * self.std / max_std + self.mu
+
+        return X_
+
+    def _more_tags(self):
+        return {'allow_nan': True, '_skip_test': True}
+
+
+