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Even on systems with a valid aspell configuration, the user might specify a nonexistent dictionary and cause aspell to exit immediately. Under normal conditions, Aspell emits a header on pipe-mode startup; this ticket is to check that preamble. Even though its format is not specified, we can at least figure out which part(s) of it are a good indication of a healthy startup.

Some platforms install the aspell tool without any dictionaries, so we need to check on whether attempting to run would just exit immediately due to missing dictionaries. A way to do this is to check that the output of aspell dicts is non-empty.

What is your opinion on providing an escape hatch for providing arbitrary aspell command-line arguments? There are a lot of flags and I'd like to let users configure the underlying aspell themselves with extra languages and dictionaries in pass-through form in my configuration file.

Is there any particular reason why this package depends on process 1.6.x or later? process is a GHC core package, and there is no version of GHC available today that actually has this version. The latest release, ghc 8.0.2, has process-1.4.3.0!