 EGCS development proved considerably more vigorous than GCC development, so much so that the FSF officially halted development on their GCC 2.x compiler, blessed EGCS as the official version of GCC, and appointed the EGCS project as the GCC maintainers in April 1999.With the release of GCC 2.95 in July 1999 the two projects were once again united.GCC has since been maintained by a varied group of programmers from around the world under the direction of a steering committee.