Originally reported by: AbsoluteMSTR (Bitbucket: AbsoluteMSTR, GitHub: AbsoluteMSTR)

Currently easy_install doesn't provide any information of the python version being used to run the command. This can be problematic when dealing with multiple installations of python and no way to identify what python version is being used.

For example "pip --version" states the version of pip and the python version.

I propose easy_install --version extends the version information to show python version

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/257