resourcet

Deterministic allocation and freeing of scarce resources.

Version on this page:	1.1.7.4
LTS Haskell 24.49:	1.3.0
Stackage Nightly 2026-07-07:	1.3.0
Latest on Hackage:	1.3.0

See all snapshots resourcet appears in

BSD-3-Clause licensed by Michael Snoyman

Maintained by [email protected]

This version can be pinned in stack with:resourcet-1.1.7.4@sha256:014947582ac16cbb63c83563d0d01cef0e0fb2fd000d792fe8ec7c9f88e2f9dc,1836

Module documentation for 1.1.7.4

Control
- Control.Monad
  - Control.Monad.Trans
    - Control.Monad.Trans.Resource
      - Control.Monad.Trans.Resource.Internal
Data
- Data.Acquire
  - Data.Acquire.Internal

Depends on 10 packages(full list with versions):

base, containers, exceptions, lifted-base, mmorph, monad-control, mtl, transformers, transformers-base, transformers-compat

Used by 49 packages in nightly-2016-05-27(full list with versions):

resourcet

Please see the full tutorial on School of Haskell.

This package was originally included with the conduit package, but has existed as a separate package for quite a while. It is fully usable outside of conduit.

Changes

1.1.7.4

Make test suite slightly more robust

1.1.7.3

Doc tweak

1.1.7.2

Remove upper bound on transformers #249

1.1.7.1

transformers-compat 0.5

1.1.7

Canonicalise Monad instances #237

1.1.6

Safe/Trustworthy for resourcet #220

1.1.5

Add pass-through instances for Alternative and MonadPlus #214

1.1.4.1

Allow older exceptions version again

1.1.4

Add MonadResource ExceptT instance #198

1.1.3.2

monad-control-1.0 support #191

1.1.3

Provide the withEx function to interact nicely with the exceptions package.