diff --git a/ringo/ringo.cabal b/ringo/ringo.cabal
index c6e384a..c63d64d 100644
--- a/ringo/ringo.cabal
+++ b/ringo/ringo.cabal
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ cabal-version:       >=1.18
 executable ringo
   hs-source-dirs:      src
   other-modules:       Ringo.ArgParser,
-                       Ringo.InputParser,
-                       Distribution.CurrentPackageDescription
+                       Ringo.InputParser
   main-is:             Main.hs
   build-depends:       base                 >=4.7     && <5,
                        text                 >=1.2     && <1.3,
@@ -30,8 +29,6 @@ executable ringo
                        directory            >=1.2     && <1.4,
                        filepath             >=1.3     && <1.5,
                        aeson                >=0.8     && <1.3,
-                       Cabal                >=1.18    && <2.1,
-                       template-haskell     >=2.9     && <2.13,
                        ringo-core
   ghc-options:         -Wall -fwarn-incomplete-uni-patterns -fno-warn-unused-do-bind
                        -fno-warn-orphans -funbox-strict-fields -O2
diff --git a/ringo/src/Distribution/CurrentPackageDescription.hs b/ringo/src/Distribution/CurrentPackageDescription.hs
deleted file mode 100644
index e415dfa..0000000
--- a/ringo/src/Distribution/CurrentPackageDescription.hs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-{-# LANGUAGE NoImplicitPrelude #-}
-{-# LANGUAGE CPP #-}
-
-module Distribution.CurrentPackageDescription
-  ( currentPackageDescription
-  , getField
-  ) where
-
-import Prelude.Compat
-import Distribution.PackageDescription
-import Distribution.PackageDescription.Parse
-import Distribution.Verbosity
-
-import Data.List           (isSuffixOf)
-import Language.Haskell.TH (stringE, runIO, Q, Exp)
-import System.Directory    (getCurrentDirectory, getDirectoryContents)
-
-
-getField :: (PackageDescription -> String) -> Q Exp
-getField f = runIO currentPackageDescription >>= stringE . f
-
-currentPackageDescription :: IO PackageDescription
-currentPackageDescription = fmap packageDescription $ do
-  dir <- getCurrentDirectory
-  cs  <- cabalFiles dir
-  case cs of
-#if MIN_VERSION_base(4,10,0)
-    (c:_) -> readGenericPackageDescription silent c
-#else
-    (c:_) -> readPackageDescription silent c
-#endif
-    []    -> error $ "Couldn't find a cabal file in the current working directory (" ++ dir ++ ")"
-
-cabalFiles :: FilePath -> IO [FilePath]
-cabalFiles dir = filter (".cabal" `isSuffixOf`) <$> getDirectoryContents dir
diff --git a/ringo/src/Ringo/ArgParser.hs b/ringo/src/Ringo/ArgParser.hs
index 509a25d..8217463 100644
--- a/ringo/src/Ringo/ArgParser.hs
+++ b/ringo/src/Ringo/ArgParser.hs
@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
 {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards #-}
-{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}
 
 module Ringo.ArgParser (ProgArgs(..), parseArgs) where
 
 import qualified Data.Text as Text
-import qualified Distribution.Package as P
-import qualified Distribution.PackageDescription as P
-import qualified Distribution.CurrentPackageDescription as P
-import qualified Distribution.Text as DText
 
 import Data.List           (intercalate)
 import Data.Monoid         ((<>))
@@ -109,9 +104,10 @@ progArgsParser =
 versionParser :: String -> Parser (a -> a)
 versionParser progName = infoOption (progName ++ " " ++ version)
   (long "version"
+   <> short 'v'
    <> help "Print version information")
   where
-    version = $(P.getField (DText.display . P.pkgVersion . P.package))
+    version = "0.1.0"
 
 parseArgs :: IO ProgArgs
 parseArgs = do
@@ -119,6 +115,6 @@ parseArgs = do
   execParser $
     info (helper <*> versionParser progName <*> progArgsParser)
          (fullDesc
-          <> progDesc $(P.getField P.description)
-          <> header (progName ++ " - " ++ $(P.getField P.synopsis))
-          <> footer ("© " ++ $(P.getField P.copyright) ++ ". " ++ $(P.getField P.homepage)))
+          <> progDesc "Tool to transform Postgres OLTP schemas to OLAP star schemas automatically"
+          <> header (progName ++ " - OLTP to OLAP schema transformer for Postgres")
+          <> footer "© 2015-2017 Quintype Inc, Nilenso Software LLP, Abhinav Sarkar. http://github.com/abhin4v/ringo")